Example sentences of "about two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 2 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 4 | BBC has been testing EON on its local radio traffic experiment in south-east England and the Midlands for about two years , and several other European countries are already , or soon will be , implementing EON , although none of the 50 or so existing RDS models is suitable for this function . |
| 5 | Arthur Benson recovered from several years of mental breakdown about two years previously and was in the evening summer of his life . |
| 6 | ‘ About two years ago , ’ explains Emyr Hughes , the NFU 's deputy regional director for North Wales , ‘ there were rumours that foxes were being dumped in the Berwyn Mountains . |
| 7 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 8 | About two years ago Autobacs cleaned up its oily-rag image . |
| 9 | In fact , there were only two short periods , of ten months in 1924 and of about two years and three months from 1929 and 1931 when it was out of power . |
| 10 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 11 | About two years ago I had fitted , for an embarrassingly large sum , a secondhand dies-at a very reputable L/R specialist situated somewhere near the present end of the M65 . |
| 12 | Then there was Octavia Hill ( ‘ I 've been in conservation for about two years ’ ) , Dr Barnardo , Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens . |
| 13 | About two years after his stroke , Stanley had achieved virtually full independence . |
| 14 | He had recovered about two years of the thirteen since Elsie 's disappearance . |
| 15 | He was n't as close to Elsie as he had hoped but he was about two years closer and that was something . |
| 16 | About two years before the Government Offices competition , he met Henry H. Hofland , who worked for W. B. Moffatt after the break-up of the latter 's partnership with Scott . |
| 17 | Fedorov is Russian of course , and has lived here ten years or thereabouts ; wife , also Russian , died about two years ago . |
| 18 | Those people have lived here for about two years and they 'll still say ‘ I 've got to go home because my old man wants his dinner . ’ |
| 19 | If your husband retires on a Friday , it is unrealistic to think that your great new life together will take off with a flourish the following Monday ; but the good news is that if you can think in terms of allowing yourselves time to renegotiate the way you live together , the chances are that you will both have adjusted to the new situation within about two years . |
| 20 | These social-science studies have shown that the average lifetime of a ufologist is about two years , after which the individual faces a crisis point . |
| 21 | Cellulose is not proof against attack and it was reckoned that a new car 's shine would be ruined in about two years . |
| 22 | I have been resident here for about two years and I have always drunk water from available streams and will continue to do so without any ill effects . |
| 23 | Toddler diarrhoea usually clears up by about two years of age , and the usual medical advice is to leave it untreated . |
| 24 | The most basic was in the period up to the age of about two years , the sensori-motor stage , when the world is explored physically — all that waving of arms and legs , sucking , and ( later ) crawling . |
| 25 | These were now about two years old , so he hoped he might be amongst the prize winners in the next five years . |
| 26 | I tried straw about two years ago , approx half a bale in a 1500 gallon pond , although I do not know if it was barley or wheat straw . |
| 27 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 28 | Even so , it took us about two years to get a guitar tone that worked . |
| 29 | No , he 's more likely to have been driving the Custom Shop totally insane for about two years straight , telephoning at obscure hours to tell them about his change of heart concerning the exact height of the fret-wire . |
| 30 | I have written several further letters to the Independent and the Guardian without success , one letter criticising the Guardian 's AIDS information which has always been about two years out of date . |