Two years had passed since U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to one of the same towns I visited.
Over two years have passed since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection.
That streak marked the first time in the jet age that two consecutive years passed without a death in a commercial airline crash.
So the time for fighting the battles of the last two years has now passed.
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In his first two years, Obama passed legislation that addressed big issues, but partisanship has probably become more corrosive.
"The pharmaceutical industry had the courage to come out with compounds very quickly, " Sternbach told Forbes in 2003, two years before he passed away.
Two years ago Monaco passed a new anti-money-laundering law with some teeth, committing to international standards of transparency and tax-information exchanges with over 20 states.
They say that's already happening in Oregon, where a similar but more limited law passed two years ago.
She said the No Child Left Behind Law passed two years ago had not helped public schools solve their problems.
Sharon Kleinpeter with the local cable company, Cox Communications, says the law was passed two years ago after long negotiations.
The Troubled Asset Relief Program expires Sunday, meaning the Treasury Secretary can commit no more funds from the bailout legislation Congress passed two years ago.
When, two years later, Congress passed a Conscription Act requiring able-bodied men aged 20 to 45 to serve in the Union army, it never occurred to Morgan that he ought to join up.
Developers cheered two years ago when Congress passed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, which gave them protection from environmental liability when they redeveloped brownfields--mostly abandoned industrial sites that might be contaminated.
Two years ago, Congress passed legislation creating the compensation fund in response to years of complaints that those who were made sick by their exposure to toxic substances at the Ground Zero site needed and deserved health care and compensation.
Legislation passed two years ago that was designed to prevent class-action abuse has reduced the number of those types of cases filed in state courts, but it also seems to have placed unforeseen strains on the federal court system because the law was drafted so poorly, experts say.
The act banning the slave trade was passed two hundred years ago this month.
Before I rejoined FORBES two years ago, Tim Forbes passed along a few website design proposals.
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Over the past two years, Michigan and Indiana passed right-to-work legislation, and the latter phased out its estate tax.
In the last two years, CSR has surged passed its tipping point.
The House passed legislation two years ago that would force OSHA to quickly issue rules regulating combustible industrial dust, but the proposal stalled in the Senate.
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However, analysts and industry experts contend health care reform will happen out of necessity, whether through the Affordable Care Act or the momentum it already has created since being passed over two years ago.
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But, in 1914, after two years of stiff opposition, Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, establishing the U.S.D.
Boehner and Republicans complain the Senate has refused to take up any proposals they have passed in the past two years.
In the past two years, at least 30 states have passed such legislation and are in the process of implementing changes.
Two and a half years after LAWA was passed, Arizona created a more controversial law called SB 1070 to enforce immigration laws outside of the workplace.
Many scoring records have been shattered in recent years but more than two decades have passed since Pakistan's Majid Khan struck a century before lunch against New Zealand in Karachi.
Two years after the renowned writer and statesman passed away, a plaque was sealed in the heart of the famous French monument dedicated to the burials of personalities acknowledged as great men by the French Republic.
Some of the most important pieces of legislation passed in the last two years include mountains of regulation (like the financial regulatory overhaul bill, which directly affects JPMorgan Chase and other banks), which have yet to play out.
Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has passed measures over the last two years to restrict access to abortions.
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Two years later, when the tactical necessity had passed, the treaty was broken and the Quraysh were attacked and defeated.
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