Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] for two year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a pewter-coloured Strat Plus which I 've had for two years now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mm so he said erm , that 's the situation he said but you can forget your business he said , as far as I 'm concerned he said , you 've lost for two years so he said consequently he said you 're gon na lose this year are you ? |
| 4 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 5 | I am not attempting to compare the quality of the Territorial Army now and following national service , but the TA then consisted almost entirely of people who had served for two years on a full-time basis , and the level of skill and general martial ability was very high . |
| 6 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 7 | It notes that by hiring two firms , IBM gave itself maximum scope — and also upset the search industry because search firms are barred from approaching a company they have worked for two years after a placement , and barred for life from approaching an individual they once placed , so each of IBM 's two can pass on such names to the other . |
| 8 | It has fought for two years to survive the recession , selling assets to cut spiralling debts . |
| 9 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |