Example sentences of "[adv prt] for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 2 | thrashed them out of sight , could n't fucking believe it , when you 've seen a pool table , erm , pool game go on for two hours , that 's when you know you |
| 3 | It 's on for two hours . |
| 4 | It 's actually on for two hours in the evening . |
| 5 | The result was controversy between Vienna and St Petersburg which dragged on for two decades . |
| 6 | it 's only on for two minutes |
| 7 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 8 | The Sergeant and the Constable had continued on for two steps through the door towards their senior officer without realising that they had left Jimmy behind . |
| 9 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 11 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 12 | Hunt on for two raiders who escaped with £1,000 from Yorkshire Building Society on Allerton Road , Allerton . |
| 13 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 14 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 15 | She hung on for two years , existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father . |
| 16 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 19 | She had already been allowed to stay on for two years beyond the age when she would normally have had to retire . |
| 20 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 21 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 22 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 23 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ You could have kept him on for two quid a week . |
| 25 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 26 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 27 | Then slow the pace down for two minutes before hiking it up again . |
| 28 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 29 | I must sit down for two minutes , Jim . |
| 30 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |