Example sentences of "two years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the payment of 1007 gained two years ' respite , but then the enemy returned , apparently in greater numbers . |
| 2 | Sentence : two years ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 3 | Sentence : two years ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 4 | However , when these two years ' figures are compared with those of previous years , it becomes obvious that the crackdown was introduced as a result of a particularly bad year for accidents . |
| 5 | The cash was the equivalent of about two years ' salary for the education director , Frank Pignatelli . |
| 6 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 7 | About 15 years ago , three months was considered to be sufficient time for a sales director with two years ' service to convince his company of his competence . |
| 8 | A woman who has at least two years ' service as at the beginning of the eleventh week prior to the expected week of confinement qualifies for maternity leave . |
| 9 | An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 10 | Equally , enhanced redundancy compensation schemes , such as had been negotiated for the regular workers at several of the organisations to which we spoke , did not apply to the temporary workers , who ( unless they have at least two years ' service ) were also ineligible for any statutory payments . |
| 11 | Two years ' service under articles is required , which must be after passing the Final . |
| 12 | If you resign before the minimum retirement age , and have at least two years ' service , your pension and lump sum will be preserved until you reach the age of 60 . |
| 13 | All full-time employees ( ie those having a normal working week of 20 hours or more , or 25 hours for directors ) who are with the Company or any of its subsidiaries which the Directors have decided will participate , and who have at least two years ' service to complete before retirement , may be eligible to participate at the discretion of the Directors . |
| 14 | Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title . |
| 15 | Called PRC 565 , it is a new generation product and the result of two years ' development involving American and British scientists . |
| 16 | She gained her grades through sheer hard work , determination and two years ' self-sacrifice . |
| 17 | Following the hearing , Mr Scott Vendrely , 29 , a military policeman who has served in Britain since 1987 , faces the prospect of paying the outstanding £538 bill for two years ' poll tax for his British wife Stephanie . |
| 18 | Four years later , Derrick faced National Service and Lynne two years ' separation . |
| 19 | In 1912 the Guild annual congress passed a resolution that divorce should be available after two years ' separation . |
| 20 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 21 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 22 | Thus , to return to the arguments mobilized against the CLRC 's proposal : the chief difference in protection of the vulnerable between the present system and the CLRC 's is that the latter had a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , whereas life imprisonment is available where a defence of diminished responsibility succeeds ; and the fundamental ethical problems are now swept under the carpet by a combination of a stretched diagnosis of ‘ abnormality of mind ’ and the ample judicial sentencing discretion , whereas the CLRC 's proposal attempted to make the issues justiciable . |
| 23 | Another aggravated offence is assault with intent to resist arrest or to prevent a lawful arrest , contrary to section 38 of the 1861 Act and carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | This offence , with its maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , encompasses two classes of weapon : first , an article made or adapted for use as a weapon ; and second , any article intended for such use . |
| 26 | This offence is punishable only with a fine , whereas reckless driving carries a maximum of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 27 | Other types of fraud and mistake are held to be insufficient for the offence of rape , and bring the case within the lesser offence of procuring a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse ( section 3 , Sexual Offences Act 1956 , carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 28 | Until 1985 the maximum penalty for indecent assault on a female was two years ' imprisonment , compared with ten years for indecent assault on a male — a legacy of the horror with which homosexuality was viewed , and of the undervaluing of female sexual and physical autonomy — but the maximum penalty for both forms of indecent assault is now ten years . |
| 29 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 30 | If the dog runs out of control , the fine can be unlimited and there is provision for a maximum two years ' imprisonment . |