Example sentences of "been [adv] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |
| 5 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 8 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 9 | Because when all said and done if at the end of two days you do n't feel that you 're any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days . |
| 10 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 11 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 12 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 15 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 16 | She has been there for two years . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |