Example sentences of "[verb] for the [num ord] two [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 2 | Polythene was virtually forgotten for the next two and a half years . |
| 3 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I suggest the patient takes it on waking for the first two or three days and then experiments either with increasing the amount or by introducing an extra dose in the afternoon or evening . |
| 6 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 7 | The melon beds had been virtually deserted for the last two or three days . |