Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 2 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 3 | Edward cried for the next two days , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 4 | The new committee to serve for the next two years was elected and is Chairman — Reg Simmons , Vice-Chairman — Ian Johnson , Secretary — Sheila Hamson , and Treasurer — Phil Johnson . |
| 5 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 6 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 7 | Sporadic firing and the misery of Joseph 's people continued for the next two days . |
| 8 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 9 | But the new house signified something else , the powerful hold over Sussex life which a few very great landowners exercised for the next two centuries or so . |