Example sentences of "and for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The homosexual is significantly implicated in both sexual and cultural difference , and for two main reasons . |
| 2 | The sputum had decreased and for two successive tests had been negative . |
| 3 | And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , and for two pins you 'd ask him to tea ! |
| 8 | This was her half-brother , and for two pins she would have hugged him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Two companies made no changes at all , and for two , no information was available . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tables 5.3,5.4 and 5.5 show the pass and failure rates for each pair of parallel tests and for two arbitrarily chosen pass marks , 50 per cent and 70 per cent . |
| 14 | So for a minute you have obviously got a hundred and eighty words and for two minutes it 's double that amount . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 18 | For a few it was more their boyfriend 's decision , and for two of them , the decision had been their own . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And for two years Pula lived a luxurious life , safe behind a high fence , feeding on imported peanuts , strawberry yoghurt , and fresh vegetables . |
| 21 | He continued his studies at Leiden , where he learned of the death of his father in 1644 , and for two more years he travelled further in France and the Netherlands . |
| 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 | She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 28 | And for two thousand years every Government has been that of an invader . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |