Example sentences of "[prep] two [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.

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1 After two settled years there are the first signs of imminent change in Taylor 's goalkeeping plans , with first choice Chris Woods suffering an alarming dip in form in the last month .
2 While understanding such economies has been a central aim of Western economists for two hundred years there is a great deal which has not yet been understood .
3 For two thousand years we lived in darkness .
4 And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own .
5 For two thousand years we have done that .
6 For two thousand years there has been an unresolved question : whether word endings of nouns and pronouns , as well as articles , are an extension of the qualities regarded as male or female .
7 For two long years I lived the life of a slave .
8 He continued his studies at Leiden , where he learned of the death of his father in 1644 , and for two more years he travelled further in France and the Netherlands .
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