Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Production is planned to continue for another two years . |
| 2 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 3 | We 've let five people go who would have joined for another two grand |
| 4 | He 's quite happy to come for those two ladies . . |
| 5 | I was to be incarcerated for another two days and nights on a diet of three assorted pills and a curious fizzy powder in a paper wrapper , presented every few hours with instructions in mime . |
| 6 | No special diet ( mentioned the captain of Famagusta ) would be claimed for these two Lusignan hostages . |
| 7 | I still can not say whose bomb did turn the Tirpitz over , But this is all good for morale ; like the piece of the Tirpit : that I was able to secure for these two happy squadrons , encased in a large frame of good British oak , and displayed at Binbrook as a trophy of what Willie Tait and his gang of two — 617 and 9 , or 9 and 617 , the choice is yours — achieved . |
| 8 | The number of matrices B which diagonalise A in this manner is indefinitely large : to prove the theorem we need only show that it holds for any two . |
| 9 | He suddenly remembered the twig he had used to push the Hosts through the leper 's squint for these two unfortunates to swallow . |
| 10 | The DoH may have to redraft the guidelines , and even if the legal difficulties are overcome the guidelines may not appear for another two to three weeks — a frustrating delay for professionals at a time when social worker are increasingly being blamed by the public for failing to control young people in care . |
| 11 | I mean now they 're going for thirty two . |
| 12 | Well , erm , I I give a very small example of that , er , we 're very privileged er , in having four distinguished leaders of the voluntary sector , who meet with us every four months , and they , er , we only meet for two two and a half hours , and we talk through what we think we 're trying to do , as a company . |
| 13 | Well they they will continue , but there will be an adjustment now to the charging of the school meals , because the joint budget did provide for another two hundred and fifty five thousand income for that reason , and erm the savings |
| 14 | One hundred and thirty seven snuff box of casket form that 's the right one , yes and I have two hundred offered for this two twenty , two forty two sixty , two eighty , three hundred and twenty , three fifty , three eighty , four hundred at four hundred pounds , any more ? |
| 15 | I mean , there 's enough coal in the United Kingdom to last for another two hundred years ! |
| 16 | We wrote traditional and then we wrote modern and then what did we do , what did we decide for those two categories ? |
| 17 | As a result Truman went before Congress on 12 March and asked that US money be provided for these two states . |
| 18 | Christie , 32 , confirmed : ‘ I have now made a definite commitment to compete for another two years . |
| 19 | Wonder if things will change for these two , twenty years on , poor little buggers . |
| 20 | They got to be stored for thirty two hours . |
| 21 | Despite the Hinduism of most Tamils and the Buddhism of most Sinhalese , they coexisted for those two millennia without much hostility . |
| 22 | Eight changes are out of the question for Lord 's next Thursday but England must do something to stop the rot before all hope of regaining the Ashes disappears for another two years . |
| 23 | Eight changes are out of the question for Lord 's next Thursday but England must do something to stop the rot before all hope of regaining the Ashes disappears for another two years . |
| 24 | On two occasions we were called into the hospital in the wee small hours , expecting the end — but the dear old rogue had nine lives and , at seventy-nine , he seemed to be negotiating for another two . |
| 25 | It was still early ; the tourist train from Cuzco would not be arriving for another two hours . |
| 26 | Visual mean values of UOS pressure were taken for each two second interval from 10 seconds before the onset of the common cavity episode until one second before the first swallow after the common cavity episode , or the onset of the first secondary oesophageal peristaltic wave ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 27 | Obviously , it is not legitimate to compare the time taken for these two different tasks , so Dooling used two different types of context for each task . |
| 28 | Any adventurer who fails a WP test will be unable to get past the Ward , but the test may be repeated for each two rounds spent trying to force a way through . |
| 29 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 30 | In nineteen seventy two our manufacturing sector accounted for thirty two percent of gross domestic product . |