Example sentences of "have [verb] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true the man is bad , but he has done two years , almost , in prison . |
| 2 | A superb mimic , Hopkins has had two years of varied non-stop work , which he loves because ‘ I come alive , I feel it enriches me ’ . |
| 3 | An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years ' continuous employment . |
| 4 | Robert Meaby says that more young talent is in the Eastbourne pipeline and indeed the addition of a good player or two can work wonders — Rossalls 's new recruit David Tonroe , 19 , from Hong Kong , has spent two years at university in California , plays to plus one and has already appeared in the Eisenhower Trophy . |
| 5 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 6 | According to UK managing director Richard Bearpark , the company has spent two years absorbing the costs of merger between the data and communications divisions of Siemens and the computer activities of Nixdorf . |
| 7 | The 32-year-old daredevil has spent two years negotiating with the Chinese authorities to make the jump . |
| 8 | Carmen has spent two years in San Salvador , forced to leave her farm in Chalatenango because of the army 's scorched earth policies . |
| 9 | The Centre of Medical Law and Ethics has spent two years working with the Terence Higgins Trust to develop the document currently under consideration . |
| 10 | This is also reflected in a soon-to-be released report by the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment which has spent two years studying new economic techniques of valuing the environment . |
| 11 | Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years , most attention going to the creation of women 's lavatories and space for tea urns . |
| 12 | Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years , most attention going to the creation of women 's lavatories and space for tea urns . |
| 13 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 14 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 15 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 17 | BAD NEWS for anyone wanting to move : you will probably have to wait two years for a substantial recovery in the housing market . |
| 18 | It would have needed two years , rather than two months , for the government to have made the changes necessary for them to become re-electable . ’ |
| 19 | For an ordinary assault , Mr Mitchell would have got two years in jail . |
| 20 | pointed out that the meeting needed to grant an indulgence to waive the requirement that candidates for First and Second Vice Presidents should have served two years on a National Committee . |
| 21 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 22 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 23 | If she is arrested for anything , however trivial , during that time , she is likely to have to serve two years in prison plus whatever sentence her new offence would attract . |
| 24 | A new logo , which replaces the one introduced nearly 20 years ago , is said to have followed two years of research among consumers , independent financial advisers , appointed representatives and staff . |
| 25 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 26 | Regulations required the direct-grant schools to set aside , without fees , 25 per cent of their places for pupils who had completed two years in an elementary school . |
| 27 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 28 | It had been prepared originally by the secret society he had joined two years earlier after being forced off his own rice lands for nonpayment of taxes , and he had copied it out dozens of times already in trying to win new recruits for the society in remote jungle villages far from Saigon . |
| 29 | It was a different Wedding Present to the one that had toured two years earlier . |
| 30 | The pair had met two years ago when Hardy scored a convincing 10-round win in a non-title bout . |