Example sentences of "[verb] to two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sessions last 45 minutes , and four instructors cater for a maximum of 24 children in the following groups ; walking to two years , 2–3 years , 3–4 years , 4–5 years . |
| 2 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 3 | However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years . |
| 4 | The end of his second term of chairmanship — shortened to two years at his request — comes as Glasgow faces the prospect of most of the city 's major hospitals being devolved to trust status . |
| 5 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 6 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 7 | One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto . |
| 8 | If they can come to a binding agreement , the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years . |
| 9 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 10 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 11 | CHONG SON-HEE : a 33-year old artist , she was sentenced to two years ’ imprisonment under the National Security Law in July 1991 for carrying out activities allegedly benefiting North Korea . |
| 12 | DMITRY SOKOLOV : aged 21 , he was sentenced to two years ' compulsive labour by a court in Russia on 5 May 1991 for ‘ evasion of regular call-up to active military service ’ under Article 80 of the Criminal Code . |
| 13 | Christopher Casabona was sentenced to two years probation after a jury heard how he tied up a woman lodger at her Felixstowe home before leaving with a 15-year-old girl . |
| 14 | He was subsequently sentenced to two years imprisonment . |
| 15 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 16 | She was sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 17 | I was sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 18 | In 1886 he met Oscar Wilde [ q.v. ] ; their friendship developed slowly , but in 1895 , when Wilde was sentenced to two years ' hard labour for homosexual crimes , Ross was his most constant and loyal friend . |
| 19 | In 1984 , when she was 18 , she was arrested , convicted of assault and sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 20 | Eventually she was sentenced to two years in jail . |
| 21 | Retired Air Force general Richard V. Secord was sentenced to two years ' probation on Jan. 24 for his role as one of the principal participants in the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 22 | Albert Hakim , the overseer of the Iran-contra financial network , was sentenced to two years ' probation and fined $5,000 on Feb. 1 . |
| 23 | Laclé , sentenced to two years ' imprisonment , was pardoned by Eyadema in early January 1990 . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] . |
| 26 | 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 ] . |
| 27 | Also on Sept. 4 Milko Balev , deputy communist party leader under Zhivkov , was found guilty of illegal currency transactions and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | He was sentenced to two years at Springhill Open prison near Aylesbury for the attack on John , now every other weekend he can come home for a visit . |
| 29 | She was sentenced to two years probation . |
| 30 | David Williams , 20 , of Dalcross Court , Hemlington , was sentenced to two years in a young offender 's institute . |