Example sentences of "for two day " in BNC.
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| 1 | TAKE a piece of fish , cook for 20 minutes until it has a wood-like texture , marinate for two days in soy sauce and sesame oil , then serve . |
| 2 | For two days beforehand , my lady-who-does-in-the-garden and myself worked flat out . |
| 3 | The mess lay there for two days . |
| 4 | The presidents of seven Latin American contries ( Peru , Argentina , Uruguay , Brazil , Venezuela , Colombia and Mexico ) gather on Wednesday in Ica , an oasis in the desert south of Lima , for two days of talks focusing on the foreign debt and drug trafficking . |
| 5 | Frank did nothing but sit in the house for two days silent and with tears . |
| 6 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 7 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 8 | Talks aimed at settling the baggage handlers strike over work rosters , which has shut down Manchester Airport to passenger flights for two days , ended last night with a deal in sight . |
| 9 | For two days running , thousands of commuters had to leave trains to walk along the tracks , some of them after being stranded between stations for six hours . |
| 10 | The American vice-president , Dan Quayle , arrived in Japan on May 20th for two days of talks that touched on everything from Japan 's closed market for car-parts to its total ban on rice imports . |
| 11 | He had been roaming New Orleans , his adopted city , for two days . |
| 12 | ‘ I might be able to come to your school for two days a week , ’ said the boy . |
| 13 | They collect the quails for two days and a night ! |
| 14 | And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy . |
| 15 | Twenty or so young adults armed with pickaxe handles set up a road-block sealing off Sidi Hasan , the Zuwaya ward in the south-west of the town , for two days . |
| 16 | What is certain is that the creative use of recorders was a general expectation : the saintly and amiable Ahmad Bu Aziza , asked to record an account of Zuwaya trading , refused to do so on the spot , but made an appointment for two days later ‘ to give me time to make the poem ’ . |
| 17 | She had not heard from her husband , a policeman in Bosnia , for two days . |
| 18 | Tonight , after five years of bulldozing and construction around the little farming community of Chessy in the flat countryside 18 miles east of Paris , Euro Disneyland will open its doors and 15,000 adult guests from around the world will be turned loose for two days in the vast theme park . |
| 19 | On May 1 the foreign ministers will meet for two days of talks on how much of a say Brussels should have in working out joint foreign policy . |
| 20 | For two days I wandered through the city . |
| 21 | For two days , Joseph rejected the commissioners ' overtures to buy his territory , explaining simply : ‘ We love the land . |
| 22 | For two days they battled to cross the Snake River , swollen by winter 's melted snows . |
| 23 | For two days , Ollokot , Five Wounds and Rainbow led frequent attacks against the soldiers ' position , which became aptly known as Misery Hill , and forty-eight horses stolen by Whipple from Looking Glass 's village were re-captured . |
| 24 | Hastening north towards the Musselshell River early the next morning , the Nez Perce fought a fierce rearguard action against Sturgis ' Bannock and Crow scouts which continued for two days and resulted in the deaths of one Nez Perce warrior and two old men , and the capture of forty horses . |
| 25 | The Science and Engineering Research Council , currently a complete shambles because of underfunding , could be bailed out , thus Saving British Science , for precisely P£1 : milk for two days . |
| 26 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 27 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 28 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |
| 29 | I have n't cut the lawn for two days but tonight the garden smells of freshly mown grass nonetheless because next door have just done theirs . |
| 30 | We took a ferry to Tangier and drove through Morocco almost continuously for two days , arriving at Figuig on the Algerian border on 22 December . |