Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [num ord] two " in BNC.

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1 Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark .
2 His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours .
3 Edward cried for the next two days , but there was nothing he could do .
4 Sporadic firing and the misery of Joseph 's people continued for the next two days .
5 In 1724 Peter I ordered that all papers relating to foreign policy should be brought together in the college archive ; and work on this continued for the next two decades .
6 One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out .
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