Example sentences of "[coord] two [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ democratization ’ is , as Bernard reminds us , a relatively new trend of the last hundred or two hundred years , and one which contrasts with an earlier situation where marriage was ‘ … a kind of privilege , a prerogative , a gift bestowed by the community ’ ( Bernard , 1976 , p. 123 ) . |
| 2 | It is known that some of the unicellular organisms in the sea today are only one or two million years old ( very little in geological terms ) , in fact they are probably as young as man himself ! |
| 3 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 4 | Paul 's position , in short , provides Simon Peter with a viable explanation for why the world has not yet ended , why it may not for another thousand or two thousand years , while at the same time still justifying one 's allegiance . |
| 5 | Two years before I had been diagnosed as suffering from ALS , commonly known as Lou Gehrig 's disease , or motor neuron disease , and given to understand that I had only one or two more years to live . |
| 6 | In the mid-Pleistocene , between one and two million years ago , the sea level around South-East Asia was as much as 660 ft ( 200 m ) lower than it is today . |
| 7 | I 'm stuck in a cell with a reeking bucket , and two hundred years to wait before justice can be done , and be seen to be done . |
| 8 | There were ten hangings at Oxford from 1892 to 1952 , and two hundred years ago there was a women 's prison next door . |
| 9 | That period now covers the year ahead and two succeeding years in broader outline . |
| 10 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 11 | So it does vary generally speaking it tends to be six and two third years . |
| 12 | Gunpowder had been in widespread use in Europe in mining and quarrying since the early seventeenth century , but two hundred years later the techniques available for detonating the charges were still very primitive . |
| 13 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 14 | She pestered her mother to enter her in the Imperial Ballet school , but two impatient years passed before she was old enough to audition , in 1891 . |