Example sentences of "for two [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we had sat by the track for two hours the train came in . |
| 2 | For two hours the 12-year-olds , working in teams , pushed a D class lifeboat round the school bus park . |
| 3 | For two months the family watched and prayed . |
| 4 | For two months the New Leader was filled with the controversy . |
| 5 | If you are prepared to tie up at least £1,000 for two years the National & Provincial has launched Security Bond III which currently pays 11.75 per cent net . |
| 6 | She is a Fellow of the Institute of Home Economics and was for two years the Institute 's Vice-Chairman . |
| 7 | For two years the League of Nations Society led a modest existence , discussing ideas , publishing proposals and keeping in touch with like-minded organizations in France , Holland and , significantly , the United States , where a League to Enforce peace had been established in 1915 . |
| 8 | For two years the colony staggered along , with much the same problem as the early English settlements in Virginia which had failed to find any line of activity in the first three or four years that would bring in money . |
| 9 | A simple cause was the fact that , in the words of one observer , ‘ For two years the land has produced nothing ’ . |
| 10 | For two years the Italians and Germans launched air raids , blockaded the island to the verge of starvation , and kept it under constant threat of invasion . |
| 11 | Because for two years for two years the intentions of the Conservative group , which have been the intentions of ourselves have delivered on the Moat Highfield questions , delivered nothing . |
| 12 | For two weeks the press flew from one Greek island to another , like migrating birds , at the slightest rumour . |
| 13 | For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life . |
| 14 | Because these videos were not available for two subjects the recall data is reported for 28 subjects only . |