Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] two year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opera has been finished two years ahead of schedule , but for productions of this scale that time is needed just for design and casting . |
| 2 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 3 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 4 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 5 | Joe Royle should have been appointed two years ago . |
| 6 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 7 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 10 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 11 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 12 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 13 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 14 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 15 | In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all . |
| 16 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 17 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 18 | She 's been gone two years and you never asked before . ’ |