Example sentences of "[adv] in two " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 2 | The first major point is that the text is basically in two parts : sentences 1–6 and sentences 7–15 . |
| 3 | Wash the specimens gently in two changes of distilled water ( not tap water , which contains Fe and Ca ) for only a few seconds at a time — the stains are relatively soluble . |
| 4 | He did this especially in two works : The Division of Labor in Society ( 1960 , first published 1993 ) and the article ‘ Two Laws of Penal Evolution ’ ( 1973 , first published 1900 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
| 6 | If the ban is approved , the contractor would have the chance to reapply in two years to be put back on the list . |
| 7 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 8 | Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food . |
| 9 | He did so in two ways . |
| 10 | So in two hours , you 've got to have twelve times as many men as you 've already got . |
| 11 | The sad thing was , as I said before , his navigator was incapable — and I must say not good enough — to get him round the heavily defended areas , and so in two sorties he still sustained abnormal flak damage . |
| 12 | At the moment the EMG pickups on the Petersen have a good clean sound , if a little clanky on the top end , but my ideal would be where you had a bass with a thousand different possibilities and you could just slot them in in two seconds flat ! |
| 13 | Third , there should be a competition tribunal , which would be brought in in two circumstances . |
| 14 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 15 | The conventional wisdom on isotopes of the same element is that they can a distinguished only in two ways : by the different masses of the nuclei , and by subtle differences in the way they absorb and emit light of specific wavelengths . |
| 16 | An important step was to show that if the semiconductor is cooled sufficiently for all the electrons to be in the lowest permitted energy states , then the mobile electrons in the inversion layer can move only in two dimensions . |
| 17 | Today orang-utans exist only in two islands of the Far East , Borneo and Sumatra . |
| 18 | Often picked by impoverished Third World workers , it appears on our supermarket shelves and our tables as a polished , insubstantial thing , available only in two or three varieties instead of in thousands , and grown at the expense of the environment . |
| 19 | Only in two instances — Hokkaido and Fukuoka , where the party failed to wrest control from left-wing incumbents — did candidates opposed by the LDP emerge as winners . |
| 20 | Only in two of the 93 patients who had both endoscopy and colonic assessment was colonic neoplasia ( in each case a small <5 mm adenoma ) found to coexist with an upper gastrointestinal lesion ( a gastric ulcer and grade 2 oesophagitis ) . |
| 21 | Only in two patients did problems with constipation recur after they had been successfully treated . |
| 22 | Only in two cases was a difference of more than one grade in the extent of gastric metaplasia found . |
| 23 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 24 | This fact , and the decay-rate restrictions discussed below , lie behind the paucity of experimental evidence on Ikeda instabilities : only in two all-optical systems ( both pulsed rather than continuous-wave ) has 2tR oscillation and chaos been observed to date . |
| 25 | Only in two seats ( one in Liverpool , one in London ) , where there was some feuding between the two Alliance partners , were Liberal and SDP candidates to be found contesting the same seats . |
| 26 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 27 | But there are hints that the bank would like to surrender its high-profile seat at the top of the company 's ruling supervisory board , probably when Mr Reuter steps down in two or three years . |
| 28 | His inward half of 33 was fine golf and contained only one lucky break when he missed the 16th green but scrambled down in two when it would have been much easier to take three . |
| 29 | Bunkered behind the green , he then got up and down in two with one of the firmest six-foot putts for a title I can recall . |
| 30 | In 1978 , Gary Player had birdied the hole for a 64 to set the target , but Watson , needing a par to tie , hooked from the tee and his second shot scuttled off the left edge of the green from where there is little chance of getting down in two more . |