Example sentences of "[be] for the [adj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 2 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 3 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 4 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 5 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 6 | You 're told what the marks are for the next two tests aren |
| 7 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |
| 8 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 9 | Well it was for the next two years . |