Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
| 2 | The lowest level of the main stair with its related rear hall , a large L-plan bedroom with en suite bathroom and a utility room , while the top storey has been reserved for two more bedrooms and a further bathroom . |
| 3 | Shadow aid Minister Michael Meacher , who is flying to Somalia next week , said : ‘ This famine , which is worse than the Ethiopia one of 1985 , has been brewing for two or three years . |
| 4 | A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care . |
| 5 | The former treasurer of a polytechnic student union has been jailed for two and a half years for stealing forty thousand pounds . |
| 6 | A YOUNG Belfast man has been jailed for two years for the manslaughter of a Galway barman while on holiday in Salthill last summer . |
| 7 | A KIRKBY man caught with £300 worth of heroin has been jailed for two years . |
| 8 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 9 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 10 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 11 | Planning permission has been granted for two ground-floor shops and 16 flats in three adjoining buildings in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 12 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 13 | STEVE WILLIAMS , the 34-year-old former England midfield player , has been suspended for two weeks without pay and stripped of his title as assistant manager following a bust-up with manager Alan Ball at Second Division Exeter City . |
| 14 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 15 | Thus the Cleveland Dance Orchestra has been booked for two evenings with the Dolphineers . |
| 16 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 17 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 18 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 19 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 20 | Although the casualty department has been closed for two years Mr Dale said it was imperative that it is opened because of its close proximity to London 's third airport . |
| 21 | There is a carers group , DACMI , which has been established for two years now , close to where you live . |
| 22 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 23 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |
| 24 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 25 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |