Example sentences of "two year [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BAe 1000 , claimed by BAe to be two years ahead of the competition , will be able to fly up to 15 passengers direct from London to the West coast of the US , Rio de Janeiro or Singapore with one stop-off . |
| 2 | LIFFE scored here by exploiting the first-mover advantage achieved by introducing the contract two years ahead of the DTB . |
| 3 | FERRANTI was warned in strong terms at the time of the takeover two years ago of the dangers of buying International Signal and Control . |
| 4 | Ferranti warning : Troubled defence firm Ferranti was warned two years ago of the dangers of buying International Signal and Control . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 8 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 9 | The man who headed the pack was Naoya Ogawa , 21 , of Japan , who first came to prominence two years ago at the World Championships in Essen when he threw Britain 's Elvis Gordon for ippon in the final of the open weight category . |
| 10 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 11 | Tomorrow Gooch is due to bequeath the bat with which he made 333 against India in the Test here two years ago to the Lord 's museum . |
| 12 | Mr Noble stressed the importance of ensuring a good mix of businesses in the Cornmill , which began to take shape two years ago with the demolition of the old Co-op store and part of the King 's Head Hotel . |
| 13 | The group caused a stir two years ago with the video for ‘ Pop Singer '89 ’ , which featured topless dancers . |
| 14 | The trawler , Pescado , sank off the south Cornish coast two years ago with the loss of six lives and a coroner ordered an investigation . |
| 15 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , has been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 16 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , have been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 17 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 18 | The assistance programme began over two years ago under the auspices of WANO . |
| 19 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 20 | My husband died two years ago from the sweating sickness . |
| 21 | The new scheme , Safe-Buy UK , was started two years ago in the north of England and only reputable home improvement companies , who are able to meet a series of straight standards , are eligible for membership . |
| 22 | They praised her work two years ago in the Broadway production of David Mamet 's satire on Hollywood , Speed The Plow . |
| 23 | Prices were down by around 50% by comparison to two years ago in the hope of moving stock : Willy d'Huysser from Belgium , for example , with a very fine choice of works , offered a Jannis Kounellis sculpture of 1976 for FFr850,000 which he had failed to sell at the Salon de Mars in Paris last year for FFr1.2 million . |
| 24 | Many were just beginning to see shares and unit trusts — bought two years ago before the crash of 1987 — regain those levels . |
| 25 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 26 | In 1954 Eyre became senior English master at Bromsgrove before moving two years later to the schools ' drama department at the BBC . |
| 27 | He and Hopkins met only once , but that was enough to cause an emotional crisis in Hopkins , who was upset at the unexpected depth of his feelings for him , even after he was drowned two years later at the age of nineteen . |
| 28 | Now we did n't have a voice , remember we were never even informed before or until two years later after the event that it had happened . |
| 29 | Another son , Gauthier , in fact assumed the French lordships of the family in Champagne by September 1298 , was serving Philip the Fair against the Flemings in July 1302 , and died at their hands two years later in the battle at Pont-à-Vendin , near Lens in Artois . |
| 30 | Since then , Rolls-Royce Motors , the new public company formed two years later from the ashes of the parent group , has successfully re-established itself in its own rarefied niche at the top of the world 's luxury car market . |