Example sentences of "and [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asthma affects one in 10 children and between two and three million people in Britain . |
| 2 | What really fascinated him was the idea that it was such a small thing , in such an obscure corner of the world , and between two such insignificant creatures . |
| 3 | A Women 's Industrial Council investigation of 10,000 girls during the 1890s found that 5 per cent spent an hour at midday and between two and four hours after school , as well as Saturdays , thus employed . |
| 4 | The outbreak of war with Spain soon removed even the façade of trade as its main purpose , yet it had royal support and between two and three thousand shareholders . |
| 5 | The problem , neatly summarized by Blackaby ( 1980 ) , was that Britain 's collective bargaining structure lay betwixt and between two polar extremes : at one extreme was the highly centralized system which was prevalent in some countries of continental Europe ; at the other extreme was the model of atomistic competition in labour markets which appeared to feature only in textbooks . |
| 6 | thanks Mr chairman an or between one and two and an and between two and three please . |
| 7 | and an and between two and three . |
| 8 | The homosexual is significantly implicated in both sexual and cultural difference , and for two main reasons . |
| 9 | The sputum had decreased and for two successive tests had been negative . |
| 10 | And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy . |
| 11 | There was no road to it , or track , merely a worn path , two fields ' distance from the farm ; but to us , big city born and bred , it was magical , the stuff of which dreams are made , and for two weeks we lived a life of unadulterated bliss . |
| 12 | It said that the Commissioners of Works were inviting ‘ architects of all countries ’ to submit designs for the concentration of Government Offices on the site between Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament , and for two buildings , one for the Foreign Office and the other for the War Department , which the ‘ Government have determined to erect forthwith , as parts of a general scheme ’ . |
| 13 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , and for two pins you 'd ask him to tea ! |
| 15 | This was her half-brother , and for two pins she would have hugged him . |
| 16 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 17 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |
| 18 | Two companies made no changes at all , and for two , no information was available . |
| 19 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 20 | Tables 5.3,5.4 and 5.5 show the pass and failure rates for each pair of parallel tests and for two arbitrarily chosen pass marks , 50 per cent and 70 per cent . |
| 21 | So for a minute you have obviously got a hundred and eighty words and for two minutes it 's double that amount . |
| 22 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 23 | Figures are presented for Surrey , with the lowest GRE per head of any Authority , for three Authorities with fairly high assessed expenditure needs of around £500 per head ( Cleveland , Knowsley and Waltham Forest ) , and for two Authorities with among the highest of all assessed needs , at about £675 ( Hackney and Westminster ) . |
| 24 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 25 | For a few it was more their boyfriend 's decision , and for two of them , the decision had been their own . |
| 26 | It is quite a normal procedure , and for two mothers who had quite easy births , having these stitches had been the worst thing about it . |
| 27 | And for two years Pula lived a luxurious life , safe behind a high fence , feeding on imported peanuts , strawberry yoghurt , and fresh vegetables . |
| 28 | He continued his studies at Leiden , where he learned of the death of his father in 1644 , and for two more years he travelled further in France and the Netherlands . |
| 29 | He taught for a year in Scarborough and for two years at Beaumaris Grammar School before being appointed in 1906 to an assistant lectureship in the department of Celtic at what became University College , Cardiff . |
| 30 | She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move . |