Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 2 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 3 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 5 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 6 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |