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

No	Sentence
1	Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children .
2	Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office .
3	Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office .
4	The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package .
5	His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before .
6	You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing .
7	The vicar who keeps more than fifty animals in his garden has been given two weeks to get rid of them .
8	The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years .
9	There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing .
10	The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed .
11	In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all .
12	In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes .
13	Marathon had already been granted two production licenses in the western edge of Cardigan Bay and St George 's Channel , West Wales .
14	He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted .
15	Agreed , the appointment had been made two months ago .
16	As a matter of authenticity , and given that the appointment had been made two months ago and that perhaps Mr Gajdusek might need a little reminder , she took the letter from its envelope while , his touch again tingling , again gentle , he smoothed some cream over her bruises .
17	There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before .
18	We have been addressing two audiences throughout the debate — the outside audience , whom the Opposition want to convince that this is a shock horror experience , and the audience in the House .
19	‘ When the cortege arrived a grave ear-marked , I think , for one of the Kavanagh sisters had been opened two doors down from Patrick 's , which at this stage had a wooden crucifix made and erected by Peter and crazy pavings which I gather were stepping stones from a stream on the homestead and mentioned in one of the poems .
20	He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last .
21	World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful .
22	World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful .
23	marketing , he 's been offered two D's
24	Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago .
25	The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him .
26	Father Barnes said that the Little Vestry had last been used two days ago on Monday the sixteenth when the Parochial Church Council had met as usual at five thirty , immediately after Evensong .
27	The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number .
28	The agents had been investigating two terrorist attacks on the Israeli airline , El Al , at Orly airport .
29	A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously .
30	There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed .