Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] for two " in BNC.

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1 Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation .
2 One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not .
3 We only went for two days .
4 Well , erm , I I give a very small example of that , er , we 're very privileged er , in having four distinguished leaders of the voluntary sector , who meet with us every four months , and they , er , we only meet for two two and a half hours , and we talk through what we think we 're trying to do , as a company .
5 One of them reportedly calls for two months severance plus a month for every year worked .
6 Statistics show that typically it only accounts for two per cent of all the verbal behaviours that take place in a conversation .
7 He told the reporter that he later lived for two years on a barge near Shrewsbury , during which time he suffered a stroke but refused to go to hospital .
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