Example sentences of "two years and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have studied postmenopausal women with inflammatory bowel disease given HRT for two years and followed changes in their bone density by annual measurements . |
| 2 | Bill had held the position for two years and saw the team achieve two of their best-ever results , sevenths in the last two World Championships . |
| 3 | Or wait two years and break it then ? ’ |
| 4 | Subscribe for two years and get three books . |
| 5 | The Joint ESRC/SERC Transport Committee ( JTC ) was established in 1978 for an initial period of two years and extended for a further 4 years after a review in 1980 . |
| 6 | Judge William Crawford sentenced her to three months in jail suspended for two years and ordered her to pay £50 costs . |
| 7 | His father Barry Cross , 44 , also of Mond Crescent , admitted six counts of mortgage fraud and was given 18 months concurrent for each suspended for two years and ordered to pay £500 costs . |
| 8 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Francis , of Caroline Street , Hetton-le-Hole , to four months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £500 compensation . |
| 9 | Leyburn magistrates yesterday banned Adrian Pinnell , 20 , from driving for two years and ordered he pay a total of £730 in fines and costs . |
| 10 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £200 costs . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 12 | They could be jailed for two years and fined £400 for ‘ engaging in activities requiring a licence when not a licensee ’ , and thirteen other offences which included inserting false or misleading advertisements , canvassing debtor-creditor agreements off trade premises , sending circulars to minors , and supplying unsolicited credit tokens . |
| 13 | And yesterday he was banned from driving for two years and fined £900 . |
| 14 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |
| 15 | The reinstatement was thorough , taking place over two years and costing much more than the original estimate . |
| 16 | To keep that , I 'm quite willing to split the band after this tour for two years and let us all get out and try different things . |
| 17 | At 16-plus they go on to college for up to two years and follow courses which will lead to work . |
| 18 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 19 | Antonia made soft-porn movie The Pieman — about a one-legged hooker who has a romp with a pizza delivery man — ‘ because she had n't been working much for nearly two years and had no income , ’ said Amanda . |
| 20 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 21 | I worked in Norwich for two years and got my City and Guilds in hairdressing , but when I saw an advertisement for a receptionist 's job at a local company ( now ) I jumped at the chance . |
| 22 | THAT night Maggie had a dream she had not had for over two years and woke up sweating and anxious , her own cries still ringing in her mind . |
| 23 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
| 24 | Reports on March 9 had also indicated that the World Bank had warned that the present situation might " lead Poland to hyperinflation , obliterate the achievements of the past two years and plunge the economy into even greater recession " . |
| 25 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 26 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 27 | I read two a day for two years and forgot them . |
| 28 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's been to the United States three times during the past two years and returned with large sums of money , which he carries in a money belt . |
| 30 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |