Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [v-ing] [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Portillo has been meeting with two leading Conservative Councillors from Oxfordshire to discuss the impact of the Poll Tax on the County . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dr Jenkins , from Leicester University , has been working on two compounds found in English yew and has recently been joined by Dr Nick Lawrence of Manchester University . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 11 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 12 | The National Front has been suffering from two other developments on the French political scene . |
| 13 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ? |