Example sentences of "[verb] two year " in BNC.
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| 31 | Citibank Mortgage will pay stamp duty up to a maximum of £400 and provide two years ' free unemployment cover . |
| 32 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 33 | This particular dataset covers two years where RAWP used only one in their validation exercise , and was compiled for an article in the Lancet which was critical of the RAWP formula ( Forster 1977 ) . |
| 34 | But all this changed two years back . |
| 35 | The 35-year-old will join his new county on tour in Sri Lanka next week , provided he receives a favourable medical report on the double stress fracture of his back he suffered two years ago . |
| 36 | contribution will have been abolished , those on income support will still receive that extra money , which they started to receive two years ago ? |
| 37 | The crisis hardened two years later in 1965 in clashes over , among other things , the question of a common agricultural policy . |
| 38 | If two crops of wheat were grown two years in a row , afterwards the land would undergo four years of pasture and then perhaps two years of vegetable crops . |
| 39 | We were both strong healthy girls at the time , and thought nothing of the dream ; it was just a curiosity ; but she did in fact die two years later — very suddenly , very unexpectedly , of an infection . |
| 40 | There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before . |
| 41 | Renault had decided two years previously to close the plant , with the loss of 4,000 jobs ; production was moved to more functional and efficient sites in north-east France . |
| 42 | The last available county figures , collated two years ago , showed £800,000 a year was spent on vandalised schools , not including fire damage . |
| 43 | It was with the volatile Ivanisevic that he had won the French Open doubles title two years ago . |
| 44 | Sherwood 's timely expansion into lace and fashion 's latest accessory — stretch lace — with the acquisitons of Birkin in 1987 and Dentex two years later , makes it Europe 's largest lace maker . |
| 45 | We had it built two years ago . |
| 46 | After serving two years of her sentence , she was released on probation . |
| 47 | M. André Simon , Boulestin 's compatriot and contemporary , writing two years ago of Boulestin 's rule that all wines young or old , red or white must be served in a decanter , recorded that " he never liked the shape and colour of wine bottles standing on the table : they were of the greatest use , of course , but their right place was the cellar or pantry " . |
| 48 | Poor people 's hostility to this measure was redoubled by their realisation of its relationship to another , adopted two years earlier under Benthamite influence , namely the Anatomy Act . |
| 49 | Piaget allows two years for the development of sensorimotor intelligence as distinct from conceptual intelligence . |
| 50 | Of the various solutions proposed in 1552 by a commission of investigation , a rather curious and irrational compromise was adopted two years later . |
| 51 | The child was born on 10 May 1977 and he was adopted two years later . |
| 52 | Or wait two years and break it then ? ’ |
| 53 | A BORDER town where major film The Playboys was shot two years ago is on the brink of another cine bonanza . |
| 54 | They could do two years , between sixteen and eighteen , you see ? |
| 55 | In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization . |
| 56 | Wordsworth felt that he wanted to return to England , settle down , and never go abroad again ; as he stated in the last of the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , written two years later : |
| 57 | That was what Lord Weinstock did when his GEC seemed threatened two years ago . |
| 58 | If she is arrested for anything , however trivial , during that time , she is likely to have to serve two years in prison plus whatever sentence her new offence would attract . |
| 59 | No trace has yet been found of the French gallery owner Basmadjian who disappeared or was kidnapped two years ago in the former Soviet Union . |
| 60 | The pair had met two years ago when Hardy scored a convincing 10-round win in a non-title bout . |