Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 2 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 3 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 4 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 5 | Those readers who have an aversion to such are advised to pass quickly by the next two sections , and move to the discussion of West Ham which provides the historical context for what is to follow . |
| 6 | ‘ Customers ’ orders , as well as invoices , can be processed via the EDI network and Atlas ; we expect the number of customers wanting to transmit orders in this way to increase substantially over the next two years . |
| 7 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 8 | In some years in the 1430s wages failed to keep pace with high prices , but they rose again in the next two decades . |
| 9 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 10 | The number and proportion of remarriages have risen sharply in the last two decades . |
| 11 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 12 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 13 | The factors that helped to build them will be examined further in the next two chapters by looking at the forces that influence the making and implementation of social policy . |
| 14 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 15 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 16 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 17 | Erm wh what I would suggest is the three that are on the group and if John 's going to be off maybe somebody else from NALGO would , would er step in to the group , get together over the next two weeks or so and er try to jointly produce a Northumberland newsletter ? |
| 18 | It used to be argued that party strife declined rapidly under the first two Georges ; that political stability was finally established under Sir Robert Walpole during the 1720s , and by 1733 , as Plumb once put it , " the two-party system was at an end " . |
| 19 | The CTVM also has links at present with research projects in Nepal , Zimbabwe , Kenya , Tanzania , Peru , Mexico , Malawi and Indonesia and CTVM staff are based permanently in the last two projects . |
| 20 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |
| 21 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 22 | The numbers are in green for par and above , for ‘ go ’ as in you might as well go home , and red for below par , for ‘ stop ’ as in you can stop here for the last two rounds . |
| 23 | By the late 1930s , the position had improved somewhat , but unemployment soared again during the first two years of the Second World War , when about a quarter of the membership found itself unemployed.29 For these single women in their 40s and 50s , it was not immediately easy to find war work , for instance in munitions factories , nor were they necessarily eager to do so . |
| 24 | A war has been quietly bubbling away over the last two or three years , possibly unnoticed by all but the keenest marine fishkeeper . |
| 25 | It also expects it to build gradually over the next two quarters and then start doing something serious in the fall . |
| 26 | Norwich 's victory was a triumph for the tactical surprise sprung by manager Walker , who deployed a sweeper to curb the threat of Villa dangermen Dean Saunders and Dalian Atkinson , who have been running amok in the last two months . |
| 27 | Several young adults hatched there during the last two breeding seasons live there as well . |
| 28 | This rate has dipped significantly in the last two years reflecting the shift in priorities of the government 's cultural policy . |
| 29 | Erm , all goes well for the first two years , no real problems there , the client is now , had an accident , an illness , sickness or whatever , now needs to claim on the policy . |
| 30 | It was introduced in embryonic form for all children in 1976 , and child tax allowances disappeared altogether over the next two years . |