Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] two [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mansell had started from the outside of the second row after a troubled two days with the new car . |
| 2 | It is unwise to attempt to tackle these various aspects of second stage recovery in any great depth before the completion of a full two years of recovery from primary or family disease because emotional and spiritual recovery may not yet be sufficiently secure to be able to take on these further challenges . |
| 3 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 4 | When the development officer realised ‘ that she had got to such a low ebb ’ she put in a paid worker for a regular two hours per week . |
| 5 | Finally , one of the doctors who had been advising him prescribed complete rest of the voice for a full two weeks before his next recital . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , another Scot , Margaret Letham , a former British champion and beaten semi-finalist last year , began her challenge with a superb two sets to nothing nine-end victory over Jersey 's Sue Dingle . |
| 7 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 8 | The Spaniard , who leads the title race by a wafer-thin two points from Finn Juha Kankkunen with Frenchman Didier Auriol a further point adrift , opened a 20-second lead over Italian Miki Biasion 's Ford Cosworth . |
| 9 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding is suited by a stiff two miles on this ground , and is well in on the same mark as his Cheltenham victory . |