Example sentences of "for the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism . |
| 2 | There is not enough room in the world for the two of us , he wrote . |
| 3 | You 're right , it would be pointless for the two of you to overlap . |
| 4 | I had prepared an unimaginative tunafish salad for the two of us in order to show off my new personal austerity programme . |
| 5 | Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap . |
| 6 | ( For the two sensibilities were radically different . ) |
| 7 | A spokesman for the consortium lead firm , HDW in Kiel , confirmed that the contract for the two 1,550-tonne diesel-powered submarines had been signed . |
| 8 | Mansell showed his personal well-being yesterday by shattering the lap record on Ferrari 's home track at Fiorano as he tested his car for the two remaining world championship races in Japan and Australia , clipping nearly two seconds off the old record . |
| 9 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 10 | Easton 's district is more prosperous than the norm for these two council districts , with an overall unemployment rate in 1981 of 9.2 per cent , compared with 19.5 per cent for the two district council areas . |
| 11 | As measures of relative prosperity , the number of households with three or more cars in Easton is more than double that for the two district council areas in which it is located , and the quality of the housing stock and amenities is higher , with the proportion of households in Easton which have use of only an outside flush toilet being half that of the general area . |
| 12 | The level of unemployment in one of Easton 's wards in 1981 was 2.5 times higher than that in another , which , at nearly 17 per cent , approached the average for the two district councils as a whole . |
| 13 | In addition , ratings for the two main parties and their leaders became more predictable as the election approached while those for the Alliance and its leaders became less predictable . |
| 14 | Four of the five remaining were auctioned off by Sotheby 's , two going to Cypriot businessman Savvas Constantinides ( who paid £110,000 for the two and who plans an aviation museum in either Pathos or Nicosia ) and two ( WR963 and WL790 ) are now in Coventry , owned by the Shackleton Preservation Society . |
| 15 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 16 | Although interest rates are set to jump after reinvestment in the US and on new plant , earnings of 17.3p , against 17.7p , a share provide a fair base for the two successor companies . |
| 17 | Although interest rates are set to jump after reinvestment in the US and on new plant , earnings of 17.3p , against 17.7p , a share provide a fair base for the two successor companies . |
| 18 | The prosecution 's success rate does not augur well for the two trials which will really test the quality of Boesky 's information and the deal that he pulled off with government lawyers . |
| 19 | The rush towards economic , if not political , integration for the two Germanys has led economists substantially to upgrade growth prospects for an even more prosperous Germany . |
| 20 | The wife was told that the only asset available to her was the matrimonial home and she agreed to take a lump sum of £12,600 with £2,473 maintenance for the two children . |
| 21 | As for the two principals , they play well if not brilliantly together as the star-crossed lovers . |
| 22 | So we took the money for the two gigs and left them there . |
| 23 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 24 | They had checked Angela 's diary for the two weeks before she had gone missing and were talking to everyone in it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Dawn , please get Angela 's diary for the two weeks before she went missing — and last week — and list every date she had . |
| 26 | Thorneycroft insisted , like Sandys before him over the TSR 2 , that economies should be made by the Navy and RAF using the same airframe for their future supersonic fighter , but he was equally unsuccessful : the requirements for the two environments were far too far apart . |
| 27 | We have reports of his school progress for the two half-years ending July 1894 and December 1894 ( he left school at Easter 1895 before the July report ) . |
| 28 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 29 | My grandfather , for his part , had found lodgings for the two boys through an advertisement in a church magazine . |
| 30 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |