Example sentences of "[conj] two [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 2 | Some papers were still in local companies , with or without a morning/evening partner , and controlled by one or two families or a scatter of shareholders . |
| 3 | Suppose we have three drugs X 1 , X 2 , X 3 ( or two drugs and a control ) that are to be compared in their effect on rats . |
| 4 | In order to provide ‘ permanent ’ help , many agencies operate a rota system with the carers working for a period of one or two weeks or a month , and then changing over in a planned way with another carer . |
| 5 | These would be either two women and a man , or two men and a woman , and the Hearings would be conducted as informally as possible , in surroundings that would not be intimidating to children . |
| 6 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 7 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 8 | The journey of almost a thousand miles took more than two nights and a day by steam train , along track of narrower gauge than is usual elsewhere , and therefore with slower speeds . |
| 9 | On his way to the office he had asked for a thermos of coffee to be sent to him and two mugs and a bowl of sugar and some milk . |
| 10 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 11 | He has three sisters and two mothers and a grandfather , so the home is a lively , happy one . |
| 12 | You handled Archer well — and two men and a woman travelling together attract less attention . ’ |
| 13 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 14 | ‘ We made a writing-table and two whatnots and a bedhead from it , and painted them all Adam green and white . |