Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] two year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 2 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 3 | However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years . |
| 4 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 5 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 6 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 7 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 8 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 9 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 10 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 11 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
| 12 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 13 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |
| 14 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 15 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 16 | It was been going for two years . |
| 17 | Although the casualty department has been closed for two years Mr Dale said it was imperative that it is opened because of its close proximity to London 's third airport . |
| 18 | The Hallmark seminars are based on two years research by DUBS and the David Hall Partnership into consistently successful and profitable companies . |
| 19 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 20 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 21 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 22 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 23 | In addition , a new generation of North Sea developments is in prospect — the Clair field ( BP : x% ) , for instance ; and our inventory of discoveries has been enlarged by two years of heavy exploration activity . |
| 24 | George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service . |
| 25 | Constitutional Development Minister Gerrit Viljoen said on Aug. 27 that negotiations on a new South African constitution should begin in 1991 and be completed within two years . |
| 26 | General manager Joseph Mikhael ( 42 ) said the scheme should be completed in two years time . |
| 27 | The PDI , which staged the largest rallies , managed to stretch the limits of official tolerance by attacking " nepotism " in high places , a reference to the business dealings of Suharto 's family [ see also below ] , and by calling for the presidential term to be limited to two years , an implicit criticism of Suharto 's years in power . |
| 28 | As part of the agreement ( i ) the 250,000-tonne buffer stock of cocoa beans ( bought in an effort to support prices ) would be frozen for two years ; ( ii ) the levy of US$30 paid by producers on their exports and by consumers on imports from non-ICCO countries would be abolished from April 15 ; ( iii ) producers undertook to attempt to repay the accumulated arrears on levy payments ( amounting to US$140,000,000 ) ; and ( iv ) some of the buffer stock could be sold to raise funds . |
| 29 | Claims must be made within two years of the child 's birth , or four in the case of muscular dystrophy . |
| 30 | A claim to carry back ACT must be made within two years after the end of the accounting period in which the surplus arose . |