Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the dog runs out of control , the fine can be unlimited and there is provision for a maximum two years ' imprisonment . |
| 2 | At present there are no plans for structural repairs to the church , where problems first came to light after a survey two years ago . |
| 3 | Supporters of the campaign two years ago to ban hunting , believe this time they will win . |
| 4 | A Danish yawl had been wrecked on the far side of the island two years before and Bonefish had rescued some of her oak timbers which he had scarfed in to Masquerade 's broken hull . |
| 5 | The words of the Principal , , to the graduates of 1992 , and the fundamental reasoning behind the launch two years ago of the University 's Environmental Initiative to imbue staff and students with an awareness of environmental problems and the resolve to confront them through integrated teaching , research and institutional behaviour . |
| 6 | He fought to put the pound into the ERM two years ago , defeating ex-Premier Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 7 | Michael Pratt was accused of hitting Gary Richards twice across his back with a table leg during a mini riot at the jail two years ago . |
| 8 | He was given the freedom of the town two years ago . |
| 9 | The Railway Preservation Society informed the council about the anniversary two years ago . |
| 10 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 11 | He has caused a storm with his claim that their bowlers ‘ scuffed up the ball ’ during the final Test at The Oval two years ago . |
| 12 | The men died when the thirty eight ton gantry fell a hundred feet from the underside of the bridge two years ago . |
| 13 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
| 14 | Mr Blackburn says he held talks about Hillbark with the council two years ago , but councillors twice rejected WPCL 's bid of £680,000 in favour of a higher offer . |
| 15 | ‘ We were also voted supplier of the year two years running by the Association of Chemical Distributors , ’ said Anthony , ‘ and we now consistently receive excellent ratings for our performance from Dow Corning . ’ |
| 16 | The greatest stir was caused by Britain 's growing friendship with Russia , culminating in an Anglo-Russian Convention in 1907 and an official visit to Britain by the Tsar two years later . |
| 17 | In any event , following a lot of intensive effort by our Delegation , Ciaran Ryan was elected to the Executive Council of Congress for the coming two years . |
| 18 | She met her boyfriend Barry in a pub two years ago . |
| 19 | That 's the inescapable conclusion of months of investigation by police and doctors into the mysterious deaths of children at the hospital two years ago . |
| 20 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 21 | HOLIDAY FUN : Grandad Andrew with daughter Rachel and Alex on a holiday two years ago . |
| 22 | The fixed menu idea came from Michael Vaughan , who finally convinced his reluctant wife to stop offering a choice of four dishes at every dinner two years ago . |
| 23 | Sydney Doran , 25 , was serving a sentence for robbery and theft at the time of the disturbance two years ago . |
| 24 | FERRANTI was warned in strong terms at the time of the takeover two years ago of the dangers of buying International Signal and Control . |
| 25 | The breaking of this promise led him to close the doors of the museum two years ago during the height of the van Gogh fever when a large outdoor festival was held right outside his doorstep . |
| 26 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 27 | Murray 's death bears similarities to a case two years ago when sixteen year old David Nock was stabbed to death as he jogged home through the town . |