Example sentences of "[verb] for the last two " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 2 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 3 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 4 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 5 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 6 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 8 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 9 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 10 | Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years . |
| 11 | ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break . |
| 12 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 13 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 14 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 15 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 16 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 17 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
| 18 | She 's done nothing but play for the last two years . |
| 19 | The melon beds had been virtually deserted for the last two or three days . |
| 20 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |