Example sentences of "two [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned . |
| 2 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |
| 3 | The fossil finds in Hadar , Ethiopia , from that time have been variously interpreted as indicating either two or a single species with extreme sexual dimorphism ( size difference between males and females ) . |
| 4 | Try this as a snack for two or a substantial meal for one |
| 5 | For the very large corporations , six figure salaries , ‘ starting with a two or a three ’ are not unusual . |
| 6 | For the first dimension , five used were : whether executive power is concentrated ( as in the British Cabinet ) or shared ( as in the Swiss Federal Council , in which all parties are represented ) ; whether the executive dominates ( as in the UK ) , or shares power with the legislature ( as in the United States ) ; whether there is a two or a multi-party system ; whether parties are divided on one political dimension ( e.g. the typical left-right division in Great Britain ) or several ( as in The Netherlands ) ; and whether elections use plurality or proportional representation procedures . |
| 7 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 8 | The five to one will last to the end of the ten minute guarantee at the shops , it will then go four and by the General Pershing could be as low as seven to two or a hundred to thirty according to Ladbrokes . |
| 9 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |
| 10 | We are not sure whether Jasper Lyon is an elderly gentleman reminiscing about World War Two or a young man who just had a bee in his bonnet as a schoolboy about flying a Stirling bomber rather than becoming a Spitfire pilot . |
| 11 | Do you want a two or a one ? |
| 12 | Or what 's the difference in this activity for a level two or a level three child ? |
| 13 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 14 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 15 | All accounted for and two and a half hours to spare . |
| 16 | Duration of meaningful contact , two and a half minutes , fifteen minutes . |
| 17 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 18 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 19 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 20 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 21 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 22 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |
| 23 | Bernard Lavery is the doyen of the home-grown British giant vegetable world , and he organised yesterday 's event at Alton Towers , the Midlands pleasure park which attracts two and a half million visitors a year . |
| 24 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 25 | In two and a half pages there were seven references to efficiency , five to value for money , four to economies and two each to savings and cost effectiveness . |
| 26 | His left thigh , his jumping take-off leg , which was always an inch and a half thicker than the right , is now two and a half inches thinner . |
| 27 | My thoughts went back to yesterday evening and Jock at No. 4 Commando , the damage done to him by a German mortar bomb , his head almost split in two and a leg blown off . |
| 28 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 29 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
| 30 | Twenty pounds of butter was enough for the lease of two and a half desiatiny of land for five years.l Five pudy of linseed cake were exchanged for the approaching harvest of a desiatin of wheat . |