Example sentences of "stay [adv] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stays away for two , three or even four years , it is deemed to be full-grown . |
| 2 | Just before Christmas the family went to Versailles ( 4 ) , staying there for two weeks . |
| 3 | Just the three of us , my parents and me , would go down to Hury and stay there for two or three weeks , or until the work was done . |
| 4 | If approved , the building would stay there for two years and then could be moved to another site . |
| 5 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 6 | She had already been allowed to stay on for two years beyond the age when she would normally have had to retire . |
| 7 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 8 | We stayed together for two years . |
| 9 | She stayed away for two weeks , and there were reports that she had been seen in Bath with Sergeant Troy . |
| 10 | Nigel stayed away for two , three years … ’ |
| 11 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |
| 12 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 13 | They said I could only stay one week , but I stayed there for two , and they did n't know . |
| 14 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |