Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [prep] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action manager converts the report into results and delivers a report on what has been achieved within two years of the start of the process . |
| 2 | A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care . |
| 3 | A YOUNG Belfast man has been jailed for two years for the manslaughter of a Galway barman while on holiday in Salthill last summer . |
| 4 | A KIRKBY man caught with £300 worth of heroin has been jailed for two years . |
| 5 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 6 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is a carers group , DACMI , which has been established for two years now , close to where you live . |
| 13 | Thoza Khonje , Malawi : released February 1991 , having been detained for two years after making remarks which were interpreted as critical of the Life President . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A trade agreement was due to have been concluded within two years of Spanish accession but it was not until Feb. 19 , 1988 , that the Andorran government appointed a negotiating team . |
| 16 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 26 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 30 | Amongst the delegates were three British senior tutors , who have been seconded for two years to the EBI financed by the ODA , to assist with the setting up of tuition and training services — Geoff Sales , Phil Brear and Pal Mangla . |