Example sentences of "we [vb past] for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not far below the hanging glacier bivouac , where we stopped for two hours before pushing on to make the most of the night . |
| 2 | We practised for two weeks . |
| 3 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 4 | We talked for two hours and , ’ he threw out both hands in a gesture of surrender , ‘ at the end of it she , yes , wore me down . ’ |
| 5 | I had two people working for me then , and basically what we did for two years was to do this type of work on unbelievable amounts of equipment . |
| 6 | We waited for two minutes before the combined strength of thirty-five pounds of EP-12 plastic explosive tore the car apart . |
| 7 | We waited for two hours , but nobody came . |
| 8 | After dinner the etiquette was very stiff , and we stood for two hours . |
| 9 | I also stayed at Scarborough where we stayed for two weeks . |