Example sentences of "but [prep] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 2 | After a previous round of talks , held in Moscow earlier in the month , Niyazov decreed on May 26 that conscripts in the Turkmen armed forces should serve for 18 months ( but for two years with the navy and for one year by those with higher education ) . |
| 3 | We were working , admittedly , on the road , but for two years not once did she … well that was it . |
| 4 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 5 | But after two years of struggling , engineers at Grundig have developed a mechanism that manages the same trick while the cassette stays in place . |
| 6 | But after two years , the frustrations of the job led Selina to move on in search of a new challenge . |
| 7 | But after two years of such conferences , things began to change . |
| 8 | Nicholas 's nephew Thomas Collett , a barrister , and his wife came to Little Gidding in 1628 but after two years found that they had no vocation for its kind of life and returned to London . |
| 9 | It shows that oral treatment with a standard dose of oestrogen not only prevents bone loss but after two years produced a significant improvement in bone density . |
| 10 | Gabriel Cleary , James Doherty and James Coll , all from the Republic of Ireland and all IRA members , received five-year sentences , and Henry Cairns , who had co-operated with the French authorities , also received five years but with two years suspended . |
| 11 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 12 | Henry Smith was in fact Irish , having been born in Dublin on 2 November , 1826 , but within two years his father died and the family moved to England . |
| 13 | As Prof. Mark recalled , ‘ the reviewer said we were out of our minds but within two years people conceded that we were correct . ’ |
| 14 | By March 1918 this figure had dwindled to 78,000 , but within two years the number had more than doubled . |
| 15 | Mortality in the first three months was greater in the oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation group ( 20% v 1% ) but by two years the survival curves were the same and thereafter there was no difference in mortality . |