Example sentences of "there for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held her there for two minutes , then paid off a further two degrees , again without adjusting the sails . |
| 2 | Come on you can go and sit back in there for two minutes , your just up to mischief out here , yeah , go on that 's what you want do n't , play with |
| 3 | That second time I went in they left me there for two hours , and I was really cracking up . |
| 4 | She was too shaken with sobs to risk driving so she sat there for two hours weeping her heart out while neighbours and passers-by studiously ignored her obvious distress . |
| 5 | Good fully booked till one thirty in the afternoon , so there 's , there 's no point , we 'll only be there for two hours . . |
| 6 | Well she were there for two hours just trying to . |
| 7 | The mess lay there for two days . |
| 8 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 9 | They took both of us down the block , and we were there for two days — no blankets , no bed , nothing , just a mattress on the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 11 | Yet the volunteers had been beavering away down there for two months , working well into the night on many occasions , and were to be there for many more months to come . |
| 12 | We were there for two months . |
| 13 | I had a studio there for two months and during that time I got all the ideas together for the record . |
| 14 | In fact , if she were there for two months , it would be unlikely that it would regard her as a resident . |
| 15 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 16 | Some species will swim there for two seasons , others for up to five . |
| 17 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 18 | I was there for two years . |
| 19 | ‘ We ent bin there for two years now , ’ said George . |
| 20 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 21 | It was th it was erm , a lot of the nurses were there for two years before they went to get th into the General Hospital training . |
| 22 | Unfortunately I 'll be stuck there for two years . |
| 23 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 24 | She has been there for two years . |
| 25 | But now EMI has been accused of exploiting its workforce — in particular , by deliberately sacking casual staff before they 've worked there for two years , thereby depriving them of statutory redundancy pay and other employment rights . |
| 26 | ‘ Hopefully I can stay out there for two years or so . |
| 27 | If approved , the building would stay there for two years and then could be moved to another site . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | Just before Christmas the family went to Versailles ( 4 ) , staying there for two weeks . |
| 30 | 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 . |