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Example sentences for "two years"

  • Coquelin gave him his first commission when he was nineteen, two years ago, and then asked him to do two sketches.

  • But he got back at me grandly last night when he presented a testimonial to the captain, and referred to the captain's wife and boy whom he is going to see after a two years' absence, at which the captain wept and everybody else wept.

  • Justinian, in the space of thirty-two years, has never granted a similar indulgence; and many of his subjects have renounced the possession of those lands whose value is insufficient to satisfy the demands of the treasury.

  • In the space of two years forty-seven companies of this kind were founded, with a combined capital of 358 millions of roubles.

  • Two years is too short a time in which to attempt to work the change in an individual that it has taken countless ages to accomplish in the white race.

  • There were no greetings such as would have taken place among men after a separation of two years.

  • He tried to look forward with pleasurable sensations to his return to the jungle of his birth and boyhood; the cruel, fierce jungle in which he had spent twenty of his twenty-two years.

  • Faithful to ourselves, we have violated no obligation to others.

  • At the end of two years he returned with a real or assumed contempt for everything English, and especially for the Church to which he belongs, and out of which he is supported.

  • This great movement, the ultimate outcome of which is not to be foreseen, had its origin in the discoveries made by Michael Faraday, sixty-two years ago.

  • He is a youth of twenty-two years of age.

  • Within a period of two years he devised no less than thirty different methods of flying, all of which, of course, came to nothing, but go to show the fertile imagination of the man, and his tireless energy.

  • This convict is fifty-two years of age, and a native of Kentucky.

  • He was tried on a charge of stealing horses, and was returned to the penitentiary for a term of two years.

  • She had lived with her husband fifty-two years, was the mother of ten children, and had fifteen grand-children.

  • At the age of twenty-two years he was convicted on a charge of horse-stealing and sent to the Frankfort, Ky.

  • Two years later, Andrew Willett published at London his Hexapla, or Sixfold Commentary upon Genesis.

  • Two years later a translation was published in England.

  • During my prison lectures I have been frequently struck with the mean size and appearance of the prisoners under twenty-two years of age, who are so numerous in our London prisons.

  • Two years passed, and on Christmas Eve I called with a present and a note sent her by a friend.

  • So marriage it is, and boys of nineteen unite with girls one or two years younger.

  • Mademoiselle," said Franz, turning towards Valentine, "unite your efforts with mine to find out the name of the man who made me an orphan at two years of age.

  • The visitor was about fifty-two years of age, dressed in one of the green surtouts, ornamented with black frogs, which have so long maintained their popularity all over Europe.

  • He is a man of from fifty to fifty-two years of age, dark, with black eyes covered with shaggy eyebrows, and a thick mustache.

  • Nevertheless, after a two years' trial of what the city has in store for most country boys who cut loose from their old environment, Hiram Strong felt to-day as though he must get back to the land.

  • Perhaps not much profit the first season; but if the farm is fertile, and the marketing conditions are right, I know I can make it pay us both in two years.

  • The last time I was out there, two years ago, he was just keepin' along and that's all.

  • She is only twenty-two years old, and is sinking already beneath the weight of her soul; a victim to highly-strung nerves, to an organization either too delicate or too full of power.

  • Jacquotte loved the house as if it had belonged to her; and when she had lived in it for twenty-two years, had she not some grounds for deluding herself on that head?

  • Two years later he composed Les Deux Freres Jumeaux--a story of paternal and motherly affection.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different nature; fellow creatures; only found; pushing forward; slightly downy; termed the; two ago; two companies; two days; two different; two distinct; two eggs well beaten; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; two hundred thousand dollars; two hundred years ago; two inches; two miles from the; two minutes; two other; two ounces; two teaspoonfuls baking powder; two thousand five hundred; two volumes; two ways; two weeks; two years