Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 2 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 3 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 4 | It is difficult to plan far enough ahead for a quarterly magazine , but we have been quarterly for two years now and still manage a Calendar in most editions so please , members and secretaries … help the editor to make your magazine an interesting and informative read for the Institute . |
| 5 | Right , I think it 's always been time-tabled for two hours though |
| 6 | You have been good for two minutes . |
| 7 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 8 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 9 | And she 's married , she 's been married for two and half years to Glen . |
| 10 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 11 | The idea bears some analogy to the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community which brought these industries under an international authority to defuse the conflict of interest between Germany and France which was held to have been responsible for two world wars . |
| 12 | Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough . |
| 13 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 14 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 15 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 16 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 17 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 18 | I 've been bad for two weeks |