Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] two year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the facts : there are about 3,000 architects in Scotland ; workloads have declined by as much as 60 per cent ; and some firms report that they are only half the size they were just two years ago . |
| 2 | Been ages since the last time , it were about two year I . |
| 3 | The pair were about two years old and 15 and 20cm respectively in height . |
| 4 | I do n't remember are you sure we were er , are you sure we were there two years ago ? |
| 5 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The narrowness of their escape was a frightful reminder not only of their human vulnerability , but also of the fragility of the regime , for had they died , the heir was only two years old . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bennett was thankful that retirement was only two years away . |
| 10 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 11 | Their average stay in a corps was only two years . |
| 12 | It was only two years or so later that he died — TB or summat . |
| 13 | It was only two years ago that the region received similar recognition for its Dalian House office development in Glasgow — an impressive record which is a fitting testament of the standards being set by our teams on site . |
| 14 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 15 | It was only two years ago however that er Bob discovered her , and George , and she 's been an inval valuable member of the c committee ever since . |
| 16 | Although , at twenty-five , her escort was only two years her junior , it often seemed like ten . |
| 17 | Her last sitcom , Fiddlers Three , was only two years ago and there is a new TV series coming up as well as a radio series , Unofficial Rosie , set in Liverpool . |
| 18 | It was only two years ago that rape by husbands became illegal . |
| 19 | Born in Edgware , in greater London , in 1952 , Andy moved to inner London when he was just two years old . |
| 20 | He married my mother when I was just two years old . |
| 21 | IN EARLY 1942 the invasion was still two years distant and the European Allied air offensive was being mounted from the numerous and growing number of airfields in the UK . |
| 22 | The maximum penalty for this offence when perpetrated against a woman was formerly two years ' imprisonment , rising to five where she was under 13.6 In 1985 , it was raised to ten years ' imprisonment regardless of the victim 's age . |
| 23 | I was giving tea to my opponent who , though the same weight , was probably two years older , when I was sent for by Julian Hall , my fag master . |
| 24 | ‘ The sale was nearly two years ago . |
| 25 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 26 | He was n't as close to Elsie as he had hoped but he was about two years closer and that was something . |
| 27 | MUM found out she had cancer when I was about two years old . |
| 28 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 29 | It was about two years ago when I was about thirteen and |
| 30 | China has changed since I was here two years ago . |