Example sentences of "[coord] for the [adj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight and for the following two nights we are privileged to welcome a quintet of American musicians specially brought together for the Guinness Spot in association with Frank Tate . |
| 2 | It now formed a terminus and for the final two miles to Bishop 's Castle the train had to reverse . |
| 3 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 4 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 5 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 6 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |
| 7 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |
| 8 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 9 | In 1835 she succumbed to a form of pre-senile dementia and for the last two decades of her life was confined to the house and terrace of Rydal Mount . |
| 10 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
| 11 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 12 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 13 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 14 | As a result the German frontier was broken , and for the next two years the provinces of Germany and Gaul were plundered by the invaders . |
| 15 | There is no way to this destination along the lochside through the narrows , but for the first two miles from the beach at Corran , beloved by oystercatchers , an enchanting path closely follows the shore in very impressive surroundings and a succession of delightful rocky coves and flowery nooks and patches of shingle . |
| 16 | ‘ But for the other two groups we feel there are many factors that spoil their enjoyment or deter them from making trips . ’ |
| 17 | But for the next two decades , as the volume of junk outstanding rose to $15 billion in 1980 and then $201 billion in 1989 , the default rate stayed low . |
| 18 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 19 | But for the last two weeks of the holidays I was continually feeling ‘ sick ’ and ‘ shaky ’ , and went back to school , weighing seven stone one pound . |
| 20 | But for the last two years of the war he at least had something to do . |
| 21 | He admitted that he thought electors were sick of what seemed like endless campaigning , but for the last two weeks his home has been the headquarters for a hectic campaign office . |