Example sentences of "have been [verb] for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
| 2 | A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care . |
| 3 | A YOUNG Belfast man has been jailed for two years for the manslaughter of a Galway barman while on holiday in Salthill last summer . |
| 4 | A KIRKBY man caught with £300 worth of heroin has been jailed for two years . |
| 5 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 6 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 7 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 8 | STEVE WILLIAMS , the 34-year-old former England midfield player , has been suspended for two weeks without pay and stripped of his title as assistant manager following a bust-up with manager Alan Ball at Second Division Exeter City . |
| 9 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 10 | Thus the Cleveland Dance Orchestra has been booked for two evenings with the Dolphineers . |
| 11 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 12 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 13 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 14 | Although the casualty department has been closed for two years Mr Dale said it was imperative that it is opened because of its close proximity to London 's third airport . |
| 15 | There is a carers group , DACMI , which has been established for two years now , close to where you live . |
| 16 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 17 | Thoza Khonje , Malawi : released February 1991 , having been detained for two years after making remarks which were interpreted as critical of the Life President . |
| 18 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 19 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 20 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 21 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 22 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 23 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 24 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 25 | The top coin shows Henry VII ( 1485-1509 ) ; it is the same generic royal image which had been used for two centuries , as can be seen from the close similarity of the image used by Edward I ( compare fig. 3 ) . |
| 26 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 27 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |
| 28 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 29 | Consecutive sentences of three months had been passed for two offences of driving while disqualified , with a further six months consecutive for an excess alcohol offence . |
| 30 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |