Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the last two " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 2 | Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title . |
| 3 | But the terms of funding for the last two years of the programme remain uncertain . |
| 4 | The acknowledged leader in modern first editions , which have been greatly in vogue for the last two years . |
| 5 | Horst Klosterkemper , chairman of the relevant committee but probably better known as the man who made the European Team Championships in Dusseldorf such a success , acknowledges that the event — without sponsor prize money for the last two years — has lost some of its gloss . |
| 6 | So I 'll gi , if I give you five pound that 's covers the the pools money for the last two |
| 7 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 8 | Philippe produced his new car for the last two races of 1974 , in Canada and at Watkins Glen , where it qualified third . |
| 9 | She 's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months . |
| 10 | You will probably need to loosen the tension for the last two rows for a really misty effect . |
| 11 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 12 | As you know , we have been valiantly battling against this awful proposal for the last two years . |
| 13 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 14 | It is also one of the major voices in the industry , with John Chance acting as chairman of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors ’ Opencast Coal Committee for the last two years . |
| 15 | But local mum Carol Lambird says she has been locked in a wrangle with Durham County Council for the last two years after her son Christopher was diagnosed as dyslexic . |
| 16 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 17 | Mr Dobson , whom police said was about 40 , had lived with Ms Bell , a receptionist , at their Darlington home for the last two years . |
| 18 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 19 | Giant London toy shop Hamleys has been getting more than 500 calls a day for the last two weeks from people asking about Thunderbird toys . |
| 20 | She added : ‘ I went round to his house every day for the last two years . |
| 21 | However , the vocabulary for such a review will need to be more subtle and precise , and much less polarized , than that which has dominated discussion of such matters in primary education for the last two decades or so ( Alexander 1984 , 1989 , 1991 ) . |
| 22 | Britain 's biggest flower show opened today , but for some people it 's meant a special outing for the last two weeks . |
| 23 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 24 | He said there had been an average of five cases in Darlington every week for the last two or three months . |
| 25 | But that notion was dispelled by Hill-Wood , who wants the Swedish international — relegated to the subs ' bench for the last two matches — to extend his career with the Gunners , where his current contract expires in 18 months . |
| 26 | In an unbecoming shade of battleship grey undercoat it took over the Museum 's service train for the last two runs on Sunday , May 24 and again on the afternoon of the 25th . |
| 27 | While Whitaker was manoeuvring ‘ Carlisle ’ to the far end of the train for the last two miles to Bishop 's Castle , Sam would be loading the luggage . |
| 28 | There are few in who wo n't recognise , Wallingford 's maltings manager for the last two years . |
| 29 | Every morning for the last two weeks staff from Gloucester City Council have picketted outside their North Warehouse office . |
| 30 | The probable absence of both Graf and Seles is particularly disappointing , because they have dominated the women 's game for the last two years . |