Example sentences of "two years [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While visiting Yugoslavia in those more happy days of some two years ago a member of the Swanage Railway noted the existence of a similar machine and reckoned that conversion would not be too difficult . |
| 2 | At this mine two years ago a man was buried and later died after a massive roof fall in an extended cut section . |
| 3 | Two years ago a report by ERL , a British consultancy firm , said there were two possibilities : direct charges on those using the plant , or an indirect levy , a tax on chemicals , say . |
| 4 | About erm eighteen months , two years ago a report was published , the Cockroft Report , this is the same Sir Wilfred Cockroft who 's chairing the Examination erm Council , which looked into the teaching of mathematics at all level in the country and it was an extremely good report and a lot has followed from it . |
| 5 | TWO years ago a group of keen anglers from at Hull teamed up with employees from a local company , , for informal and friendly fishing matches . |
| 6 | Last season they won the junior Grand Slam and overwhelmed England 32–3 at Fylde , while two years ago a side containing Scott Gibbs and Neil Jenkins won 12–6 at Wrexham . |
| 7 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 8 | But US confidence in dealing with Russia was bolstered soon afterwards by the use of the atomic bomb to defeat Japan , and in the two years following a breakdown in East-West relations occurred which , with the decline of Britain to secondary status , left Europe divided between American and Soviet spheres of influence . |