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

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1 It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived .
2 She has been there for two years .
3 Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand .
4 ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back .
5 Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years .
6 Trotter had been away for two weeks .
7 And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said .
8 Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history .
9 These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years .
10 ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast .
11 ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’
12 I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them .
13 Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith
14 ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’
15 it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out
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