Example sentences of "two years [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | Her husband has been awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen 's College , Birmingham , so for the next two years they will be dividing their time between Birmingham and Derbyshire . |
2 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
3 | It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage . |
4 | The current Royal Commission report indicates that this type of er , this likely to be on average twenty times the current legal limits within a year to two years we will be looking at receiving it which is ten times plant producing two hundred fold the legal limits dialysis . |
5 | ‘ In the first two years we will establish 6,000 nursery and after school places and offer staff the chance to choose the hours they work , ’ she said . |
6 | At an absolute minimum , the worth of the company must be £100m ( in fact , within the next two years it would be worth £25Om . ) |
7 | In two years it could well be down to single figures . |
8 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
9 | It 's hoped within the next two years she 'll make a full recovery , but it 's still not certain whether her marriage will ever recover . |
10 | ‘ Many Japanese are nationalistic , so even I , when I decided to join Arthur Andersen , thought that after 18 months or two years I would leave and open my own office . |
11 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
12 | Well only in the last er two years I would think , perhaps two and a half years er had they really started putting double plugs in everywhere instead of single plugs |
13 | ‘ Over the next two years I shall be paying particular attention to the need to stress the primary importance of manufacturing industry to this region 's future , ’ he said . |
14 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
15 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
16 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
17 | But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like . |
18 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
19 | Even if you are working or have been away from the University for more than two years you can still have Current Vacancies mailed to you for a small charge . |
20 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
21 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
22 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
23 | but Pete if he , I mean I do n't see why he does n't if he went private for two years he 'd make enough to retire , in two years , no sweat , he wo n't have to work again , I mean I bet his house is paid for |
24 | Nevertheless , he forsees that over the next two years there may be problems as fleets dispose of the diesels acquired during the last oil-burner boom . |
25 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |