Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [verb] for two " in BNC.

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1 Consecutive sentences of three months had been passed for two offences of driving while disqualified , with a further six months consecutive for an excess alcohol offence .
2 A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own .
3 The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days .
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 The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions .
6 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 .
7 When she emerged , the wall-lights had been dimmed and the polished table by the french windows had been set for two .
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