Example sentences of "two year and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed away two years and soon after he returned found that , as an eighteen-year-old , he faced National Service . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 3 | And between 1981–83 , when he was number one in the world rankings , he played in every United States match , helping them to win the trophy the first two years and even competing in their historic relegation match against Ireland in Dublin after they had lost to Argentina in the first round in 1983 . |
| 4 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 5 | At least two years and less than twelve years |
| 6 | I 've had them about two years and never really worn them . |
| 7 | It is for this same reason that training programmes in treatment centres are not normally considered for potential counsellor trainees until they have been in recovery for at least two years and preferably longer . |
| 8 | It is not grave because there need n't be an election for two years and more . |
| 9 | Why , then , should he have risked even giving the impression of having thrown his hat into the ring a full two years and more before the next election is due ? |
| 10 | The purpose of his journey , which he revealed to the king 's sister , Adela , countess of Blois , was to excommunicate the king , ‘ for the injury which he had done to God and himself for the last two years and more . ’ |
| 11 | In these past two years and more , since Matthew had been employed with David , distancing himself from the old man and returning to the family fold , Beth had never stopped hoping that one day he might turn to her with affection . |
| 12 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 13 | Yet the need is such that our spending at home and overseas has doubled in the last two years and still vital pieces of work in the U K and overseas await funding . |
| 14 | Kavos has been the fastest developing resort in Corfu over the past two years and now has more bars , tavernas and discos than just about anywhere else on the island . |
| 15 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 16 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 17 | What 's more , if you know at least nine other stamp collectors , you can join as a group member for even less — just £2.20 for two years and only £3.50 for five years ! |
| 18 | We 've owned the thing for two years and only taken it out that one time when it snowed . ’ |
| 19 | To make a living he worked at Sothebys for two years and then set up business selling Cartier objects and jewelry which involved travelling all around the world . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 21 | Corporate lawyers managed to delay the case coming to court for two years and then they prolonged the proceedings for a further two years . |
| 22 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 23 | I 've got fourteen places in the last two years and then these opens . |
| 24 | IBM has got to the point where it has baptised the concept of the RS/6000 Cluster Service Offering , but a twist in DEC 's plan is to enable alien workstations to be included in the cluster — according to Electronic News , it conceives of creating clusters of Alpha-based workstations within one to two years and then to move on to embracing alien machines , with the benefit that stations could be used as stand-alone units when no parallel work was running . |
| 25 | Suppression of unions also enabled Japanese textile firms in West Java to systematically take on ‘ probationers ’ for two years and then sack them just before they were entitled to become permanent staff . |
| 26 | Patients were assessed clinically and by ultrasound scanning at approximately three months , six monthly to two years and then yearly after percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 27 | And the high risk group would have three monthly check cystoscopies for two years and then go onto annual check cystoscopies . |
| 28 | If approved , the building would stay there for two years and then could be moved to another site . |
| 29 | Winston Churchill , MP for Davyhulme , a leading Tory rebel , said : ‘ The report is that the White Paper says that 13 pits are going to be saved for two years and then have the chop . |
| 30 | But erm so being in hospital two years and then I was in St Giles for eighteen months , which is like Stoke Mandeville |