Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |
| 13 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 14 | It was been going for two years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 17 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Thoza Khonje , Malawi : released February 1991 , having been detained for two years after making remarks which were interpreted as critical of the Life President . |
| 23 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A YOUNG Belfast man has been jailed for two years for the manslaughter of a Galway barman while on holiday in Salthill last summer . |