Example sentences of "two years for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Scamp got two years for assault , grievous bodily , so on , so forth .
2 Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs .
3 Contrast this with the words of a House of Lords Select Committee considering exactly the same problem : ‘ because of the high proportion [ of homes with polluted tapwater ] and the long-standing nature of the problem , the Committee believe that the two years for compliance with the Directive is wholly unrealistic . ’
4 He got two years for dreath death by reckless driving .
5 Two years for buggery in nineteen sixty-three .
6 Man gets two years for knife attack
7 Mrs Bottomley stressed her commitment to the Patient 's Charter , which has already eliminated almost all waits of more than two years for NHS operations .
8 It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences .
9 The hospital now looks set to achieve the April target of no patients waiting more than two years for surgery .
10 We have already pledged that in future no one will wait more than two years for treatment on the NHS .
11 So , even though the waiting lists in the North continue to decline from January 's 462 people waiting more than two years for treatment to just 207 in February they may not be an accurate reflection of the numbers waiting to see a consultant .
12 Tories have already pledged that no one will have to wait more than two years for treatment and from March 31 , 1992 they say no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement , or a cataract operation .
13 She decided to speak out after recent figures released by the Department of Health showed that the number of people waiting over two years for treatment in the Nothern Region had dropped from 1,474 at the end of March 1991 to just one now .
14 Opposition Chief Whip Derek Foster , Bishop Auckland 's Labour MP , welcomed the news no one should have to wait longer than two years for treatment but called for reassurances that figures had not been ‘ massaged ’ .
15 The health authority hopes that by next March no patients will have waited more than two years for treatment .
16 Mr Milburn said he had spoken to an 81-year-old lady from Harrowgate Hill who has got steadily more blind while waiting two years for treatment for cataracts .
17 The waiting list figures , released three weeks early by the Department of Health , show that the number of people waiting over two years for treatment in the Northern Region has dropped from 1,474 at the end of March , 1991 .
18 Figures for people waiting between one and two years for treatment had also dropped by around 400 to 4,355 in the 12 months to the end of February .
19 Five years ago , the number waiting more than two years for treatment stood at 90,000 .
20 But last night the NRHA spokeswoman emphatically denied her authority had any secret list , adding there was just one person in the North who was waiting more than two years for treatment .
21 All told , life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade , and by two and a half years for men .
22 Life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade and by two and a half years for men .
23 The hospital 's track record on waiting lists bears comparison with any in the country , with the number of those waiting for more than two years for in-patient treatment having decreased since June 1990 from 137 to 18 .
24 The punishment in most cases was whipping ; Albert Pirch and Joan Boxes , John Sencler and Agnes Wells , John Schepherde and Joan Bores received this sentence , while Richard Holoway , Vicar of Halling , was suspended for two years for adultery with Joan Parfrey .
25 As currently organised , it combines work experience with ‘ on-the-job ’ and ‘ off-the-job ’ training for young people leaving school or college , in periods of two years for 16-year-olds , and one year for 17-year-olds .
26 A research student is required to complete a period of full-time study lasting for two years for MPhil or three years for DPhil , or a period of part-time study lasting for four years for MPhil or five years for DPhil .
27 WITH interest rates going through the roof the offer of an interest-free loan for two years for buyers of new cars should be investigated .
28 Known sex offender gets two years for abduction
29 Mr Akehurst questions the wisdom of ensuring no-one waits for more than two years for hospital treatment a key Tory election pledge as this would result in people with low priority conditions holding up treatments for people with more urgent clinical needs .
30 A WOMAN waiting for surgery has reacted angrily to figures showing a massive reduction in the number of people waiting more than two years for hospital treatment .
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