Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [adj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 2 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 3 | The Collector estimated that at this rate they might carry on for another two or three weeks . |
| 4 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 5 | They therefore received the doubtful honour of pouring out for some two hundred ladies , regardless of the fact that it was a very arduous and tiring task . |
| 6 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 7 | What had happened did n't really sink home for another two years or so . |
| 8 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 9 | And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years . |
| 10 | Will they disappear again for another two or three hundred years ? |
| 11 | The car ran steadily for those two hours . |
| 12 | Pressed back over their own blue line , Wasps rallied around their minder , Frank Killen , and held out for another two minutes before Herckerrath added a second as three of the Wasps sat out penalties in the box . |