Example sentences of "and [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 2 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 3 | So for a minute you have obviously got a hundred and eighty words and for two minutes it 's double that amount . |
| 4 | She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move . |
| 5 | It is quite a normal procedure , and for two mothers who had quite easy births , having these stitches had been the worst thing about it . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and for two pins you 'd ask him to tea ! |
| 7 | This was her half-brother , and for two pins she would have hugged him . |
| 8 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 9 | Figures are presented for Surrey , with the lowest GRE per head of any Authority , for three Authorities with fairly high assessed expenditure needs of around £500 per head ( Cleveland , Knowsley and Waltham Forest ) , and for two Authorities with among the highest of all assessed needs , at about £675 ( Hackney and Westminster ) . |
| 10 | The shining Gaggia dispensed one-and-a-half inches of bitter froth into an earthenware cup , and for two shillings lovers could sit for many hours in the dark brown shadows , with a bowl of brown sugar between them . |
| 11 | It said that the Commissioners of Works were inviting ‘ architects of all countries ’ to submit designs for the concentration of Government Offices on the site between Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament , and for two buildings , one for the Foreign Office and the other for the War Department , which the ‘ Government have determined to erect forthwith , as parts of a general scheme ’ . |
| 12 | There was no road to it , or track , merely a worn path , two fields ' distance from the farm ; but to us , big city born and bred , it was magical , the stuff of which dreams are made , and for two weeks we lived a life of unadulterated bliss . |
| 13 | And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy . |
| 14 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 15 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 16 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 17 | Paper has been smuggled from Croatia on horseback over the mountains which is very dodgy , and for two days Oslobodjenje was printed on blue and yellow paper as the white had run out . |
| 18 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 19 | For an instance where one of the parties did object to the principle , see Chelsea Man plc v Vivat Holdings plc ( 1989 ) unreported , Court of Appeal , 24 August discussed at 13.8.2 : and for two examples of how an expert dealt with points of law , see 13.8.3 . |
| 20 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |
| 21 | And for two years Pula lived a luxurious life , safe behind a high fence , feeding on imported peanuts , strawberry yoghurt , and fresh vegetables . |
| 22 | He taught for a year in Scarborough and for two years at Beaumaris Grammar School before being appointed in 1906 to an assistant lectureship in the department of Celtic at what became University College , Cardiff . |
| 23 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 24 | And for two years a de-icing service run jointly with the UK Department of Transport has advised local authorities on proper road maintenance in freezing weather and helped promote safer driving . |
| 25 | He had pursued her — politely but unmistakably and through two weeks — at Grasmere . |
| 26 | And after two sets of about 45 minutes each , it was hard to let the Zimbabweans go . |
| 27 | David Ufland also tells how Minton on one occasion walked into a composition class and after two minutes left without saying a word . |
| 28 | Agriculture was beginning to change dramatically as well and after two hurricanes which almost wiped out the flourishing egg industry many farms built more substantial hen houses out of concrete blocks and the poultry were kept inside all the time in what was known as deep litter houses . |
| 29 | Viability was measured using trypan blue exclusion and was found to be >95% both before and after two hours culture . |
| 30 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |