Sentence examples for for two stretches from inspiring English sources

The government shut down for two stretches in late 1995 and early 1996.

He had lived there for two stretches, once from the ages of 3 to 7 and again from 9 to 12. "We felt we could go back and see if we could do anything," he said.

"We had screaming arguments about it," said Rachel Harrison, who lived at home in Larchmont, N.Y., for two stretches in recent years but is now on her own in Harlem.

Bayreuth, of course, has Wagner, although Lucerne makes its own claim on him: the composer lived here for two stretches, married Cosima in one of its churches, and wrote the "Siegfried Idyll," finished "Die Meistersinger" and worked on the "Ring" in its precincts.

Justice worked at least 40 hours a week but couldn't afford to buy insurance for two stretches of the past four years.

One PPD sufferer at the Duke University program reported, "We used the white noise CD last night and our son slept for two stretches of 4.5 hours each".

Ms. Maya and Ms. Molina, dressed in body-hugging gray stretch fabric, could have been Elie Nadelman maquettes come to life, in an unspooling thread of jutting, twining, darting encounters for two stretched flamenco bodies.

Held in contempt of court, he then went back to prison, for three stretches that together lasted more than a year.

Rose played for three stretches — 7 minutes 2 seconds to start the first quarter, 8 31 to finish the second and another 5 13 to begin the third.

But except for one stretch during the Clinton administration, this notion has been broken since the early 1980s.

For one stretch of the afternoon, visitors to the site got an error message, accompanied, incongruously, by the Chinese character for Zen Buddhism.