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

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1 In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance .
2 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 .
3 The new modules have been developed for two groups of students : those returning to S5 for a limited period of time , and those who intend to complete a full year 's programme of study in S5 or S6 .
4 We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years .
5 She had n't been to work for two nights .
6 The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions .
7 Thus the Cleveland Dance Orchestra has been booked for two evenings with the Dolphineers .
8 I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years
9 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 .
10 Planning permission has been granted for two ground-floor shops and 16 flats in three adjoining buildings in Church Street , Hartlepool .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years .
14 A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years .
15 A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own .
16 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 .
17 It 's not been fed for two years has it , so
18 It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's .
19 McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer .
20 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 .
21 ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’
22 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 .
23 she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’
24 Circuses have been going for two hundred years .
25 It was been going for two years .
26 I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ?
27 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 ) .
28 Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony .
29 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 .
30 The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days .
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