Sentence examples for stopped for two years from inspiring English sources

Worsening Kerala's reputation, the left wants software workers to be unionised, and work at a Coca-Cola bottling plant has been stopped for two years by local villagers protesting that it depleted and poisoned their water supplies.

I stopped for two years before each Olympics, wanting to be completely in the zone, then afterwards I'd run in the food hall – the size of five football pitches – for ice creams, then start drinking again.

LR: Well I stopped for two years, but I've mostly been doing this kind of thing for forty-five yearso so the public is more or less aware of me, I've been working the whole time and it's not changed.

Hadid explains that he began driving twenty years ago, stopped for fifteen years, and returned.

The road went into receivership, and construction stopped for six years.

Detention, killing and displacement against the people of Mosul has not stopped for ten years.

Tours at Hanford began in the late 1990s — they were stopped for three years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — and last five hours.

Then, like a miracle, at age 14 the episodes stopped for five years, though they later recurred sporadically and unpredictably about half a dozen times.

In order to keep the machine unique, the councillors are said to have broken into the clockmaker's house and blinded him with a piece of iron.​ 2. The clock was severely damaged by the Nazis During Prague Uprising in May 1945, the Nazis damaged the clock so severely with anti-aircraft guns that it stopped for three years.

Racing at the track was stopped for three years.

For the most serious and organised cases, benefit could be stopped for three years.