Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 2 | The entrance to the harbour was by a clear channel for the last two hundred yards or so , unmarked but familiar to the fisherfolk , the rest a widespread menace . |
| 3 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 4 | As you know , we have been valiantly battling against this awful proposal for the last two years . |
| 5 | The overall figures for the first two years are given in table I. There have been a total of 16 positive test results , nine of which were confirmed on a subsequent venous sample , giving an incidence of 1:3802 male births . |
| 6 | Keith has been in serious training for the last two weeks . |
| 7 | IRAS will scan the Milky Way for the first two or three months , concluding with passes over the centre of the galaxy — a strong infrared source hidden from optical astronomers by dust . |
| 8 | By the same token try to avoid bright natural light for the first two to three days after the flight at times corresponding to 5 to 11 o'clock in the morning on old time as this will tend to advance your body clock . |
| 9 | The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage . |
| 10 | However , their leading woman for the first two seasons , June Brae , was a contemporary of Margot Fonteyn , returning to the stage after a break during the war . |
| 11 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 12 | An intermittent moorland path to the coast , with a hard track for the last two miles before joining road ; route-finding moderately easy . |
| 13 | However , second-period constants for the first two variants of the model are imprecisely estimated . |
| 14 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 15 | She had heard raised voices for the last two hours , ever since she and Peter had arrived , and she was miserably aware that it was all her fault . |
| 16 | At a series of meetings at Rosyth yesterday employees were told that although the yard had a substantial workload for the next two years , it was vital to reduce overheads and capacity to improve its competitive position . |
| 17 | However , the vocabulary for such a review will need to be more subtle and precise , and much less polarized , than that which has dominated discussion of such matters in primary education for the last two decades or so ( Alexander 1984 , 1989 , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | I ask the House to listen in reasonable silence for the next two minutes . |
| 19 | The first return to be affected by these changes will be the one for the period ending 31 January 1993 : the taxpayer will have to apply the existing system for the first two months , and the new procedures for the final month . |
| 20 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 21 | The provisional dates for the next two academic years are : |
| 22 | She was evidently a heavy smoker for the first two fingers of her right hand were stained with nicotine , and , now that he looked , the nails were bitten and the cuticles chewed raw . |
| 23 | There was yet more bad news for Wednesday with stand-by striker Gordon Watson missing training for the last two days with a throat and chest virus . |
| 24 | This month I 'm only going to tab the two-bar ending , leaving the 16-bar solo for the next two issues . |
| 25 | A full forecast for the next two days coming up , but have you seen anything you like here ? |
| 26 | It was decided that Ajax should forfeit the tie and thereafter be excluded from European competition for the next two seasons for which they qualify . |
| 27 | He declined to comment on a looming trade war between the US and the European Community , stressing that such problems had to be dealt with by Bush , who Clinton insists is the US 's only president for the next two and a half months . |
| 28 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 29 | DEC has filled the critical post of head of worldwide sales and marketing , naming Edward Lucente , once an IBM bright light and a top guy at Northern Telecom for the last two years , completing its new executive roster . |
| 30 | After winning the top-heat level breaks for the last two Saturdays , Batley Ranger could notch up a hat-trick in Saturday 's event , which is sponsored by DLS engineering . |