Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] for two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 2 | The Peat Consortium , representing Britain 's leading voluntary wildlife conservation bodies including the Worldwide Fund for Nature , Friends of the Earth and the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , has campaigned for two years to halt extraction from the bogs . |
| 3 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
| 4 | Whether Evert has , in fact , bowed out from the sport she has graced for two decades remains to been seen . |
| 5 | It has fought for two years to survive the recession , selling assets to cut spiralling debts . |
| 6 | I use the word beautiful knowing it to be inaccurate , yet not knowing how else to counteract the myth which has circulated for two centuries that Frankenstein 's monster 's face was a hideous conglomeration of second-hand features . |
| 7 | ‘ According to Ana , this anger has lasted for two years . |
| 8 | So the , the upshot of it all , is he 's banned for two races , but this is a susp suspended erm , ban over two months , er er , over six months rather , so it means that if he 's a good boy over the next six months he wo n't miss any races at all , so he has had a lucky escape . |