Example sentences of "two years [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pronouncement that ‘ when your application is not done in two years its running at zero MIPS no matter what hardware is running on your desk ’ was greeted by cheers from the audience . |
| 2 | If they reduced their blood cholesterol level by 10 per cent , within two years their risk of heart attack would go down by 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Although , at twenty-five , her escort was only two years her junior , it often seemed like ten . |
| 4 | After two years her owner felt that she had run out of options : Anna was a horse without a future : she could never be a riding horse , nor would she ever breed . |
| 5 | After two years his sight began to return in one eye . |
| 6 | For the last two years his title has been Senior Commandant , Family , Housing and Welfare Service for Catterick Garrison . |
| 7 | Over the past two years his workforce has increased tenfold . |
| 8 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 9 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 10 | His reasons have been variously stated to include a wish to avoid undue interference by his College work with his private practice , and temperamental incompatibility with Coleman , who was only two years his senior . |
| 11 | He 's a nice boy , ’ she said tolerantly , and a shade absurdly in view of the fact that she was perhaps two years his senior , ‘ but somehow I do n't see him making it to the top . |
| 12 | The travellers proceeded to Augsburg , Leopold 's home town , and it was on this visit that Mozart met his cousin , Maria Anna Thekla Mozart , two years his junior . |
| 13 | Bienvida , being two years his junior , asked wistfully if he thought she would ever go back to Brian . |
| 14 | For the next two years his health remained stable although the hospital had told us he might have more mini-strokes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Within two years our course will probably include SPDL , a brief coverage of the ODA DAPs , and one hypermedia framework . |
| 17 | After two years my work was extended to include a number of musical shows , including piano recitals , with such international personalities as Egon Petri and the Australian baritone , Clement Q. Williams and his accompanist-wife , Enid Conley . |
| 18 | After a comparatively quiet two years my athletics career came alive again in 1984 , Olympic year . |
| 19 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's only fifty-seven — two years my senior . |
| 21 | Edward is in his thirteenth year , two years your elder , and is King of England — why then would he depend on you ? ’ |