Example sentences of "for [adv] [subord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A surrender value may not be available if premiums have been paid for less than two years . |
| 2 | Had he worked part-time as a traffic clerk or been employed for less than two years by Humberside Heavy Haulage , Peter would not have been entitled to a redundancy payment . |
| 3 | Scholars of the development of the English language know that generic he has been the undisputed standard usage for less than two centuries . |
| 4 | Independent studies suggest that half these 35m are uninsured for less than three months , and 85% for less than two years . |
| 5 | Ms Kiernan finds that unmarried women cohabit , on average , for less than two years . |
| 6 | Mr Hobbs said the loss of the Chicago service was a ‘ real blow ’ for Stansted , although it accounted for less than two per cent of the airport 's traffic . |
| 7 | Having known her for less than two months , he was not yet confident of any strong hold on her affections , despite the fact that she seemed quite willing to accept his embraces and kisses . |
| 8 | The imports , costing US$9,000,000 , were enough to cover domestic needs for less than two days . |
| 9 | ‘ You could rent a place like this , on a maintaining lease , for less than two hundred pounds a year . ’ |
| 10 | Who said the west end 's expensive , at least one place in Soho here today where you can get a square meal for less than two bob . |
| 11 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 12 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 13 | Orders from other market segments remained firm with demand patterns clear for more than two years , he said . |
| 14 | Biggs rolled over on to his back and remained motionless for more than two minutes after referee Larry O'Connell had completed the count . |
| 15 | Gryschenko had been missing for more than two days . |
| 16 | LEP 's Californian rival , the Stanford Linear Collider , has been trying , and failing , to get this result for more than two years . |
| 17 | For more than two decades he has led BMW , building it up into one of the industry 's most respected and successful marques . |
| 18 | Time and temperature indicators are small stickers which can be placed in the outside of food containers and will change colour from white to red of food temperature rises above 12°C for more than two hours . |
| 19 | I am delighted : it is an issue on which I have campaigned vigorously for more than two years . |
| 20 | The Government forecasts that the number of people out of work for more than two years will fall from 550,000 in April 1989 to 325,000 by April 1991 . |
| 21 | Monkey Mia , on the remote western coastline of Australia , has for more than two decades been visited by wild dolphins . |
| 22 | Britain 's 12-month rate of consumer-price inflation fell to 6.4% in April , its lowest for more than two years . |
| 23 | CHEADLE , flags holders , league champions and unbeaten for more than two years , did not allow their proud record to slip away as they beat Heaton Mersey 15–12 in the final of the Daily Telegraph Senior Flags final at Didsbury yesterday . |
| 24 | EASTER holidaymakers heading out of London were delayed when the M1 was closed for more than two hours last night because of a suspect van on the hard shoulder two miles from where an IRA bomb exploded last week . |
| 25 | Should your flight be delayed for more than two hours after the scheduled departure time , Enterprise will provide the following : |
| 26 | Of particular importance among recent works is Janet Todd 's A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660–1800 ( 1984 ) which brings forward an enormous amount of information about writers , some of whom have been entirely unregarded for more than two centuries . |
| 27 | And this would reveal that the Covenant 's structure was by nature essentially Western , a product of European parliamentary equality grafted on to a newly independent nation whose very existence had been contested by more than half its population for more than two decades . |
| 28 | Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up . |
| 29 | However , the effect did not last for more than two days at a time because Owen 's diet was still too high in white sugar and chemical additives . |
| 30 | A procedure which keeps alive a warning ( even for a major breach of discipline ) for more than two or three years is almost always unjust . |