Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got two essays to write in the next fortnight . |
| 2 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 3 | Two projects commissioned by the European Commission — the competitiveness of the Community 's ‘ tradeable service sector ’ relative to Japan and the USA , and the ‘ identification of the technical devices that will lead to new service activities in the next 10-15 years and the role which these new services might play in European society ’ — were completed in 1985 . |
| 4 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 5 | For precisely two minutes explain to an imaginary senior manager what your report is all about . |
| 6 | For comparison purposes it is interesting to note that searching a sequential ASCII file using a standard Unix command ( grep ) takes approximately two minutes to look for the 22 words of the test sentence , not including all the alternative candidate strings for each of these word positions . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 8 | After about two hours sitting on the concrete floor , the prisoners were taken , one by one , into a room to be interviewed by an Englishman in plain clothes . |
| 9 | Up to two adaptors attach to the 200 at £386 each . |
| 10 | His most recent summer holidays were spent with his two sons walking in the central Pyrenees : ‘ It was quite gruelling . ’ |
| 11 | During a trade dispute in 1960 , a police officer found two pickets standing at the front entrance of a factory , four standing at the back entrance and ten or twelve outside the back entrance . |
| 12 | In 1775 , for instance , there were extremely elaborate entries into each other 's capitals by the Russian and Turkish ambassadors charged with the ratification of the peace-treaty between the two states signed in the previous year . |
| 13 | No man has any reason to say that any two states belong to the same self unless he has a reason to believe them to be caused by the same body . |
| 14 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 15 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 16 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 17 | The collision of two continents leads to the eventual cessation of subduction , whereas other types of collision may cause a change in the location of the subduction zone . |
| 18 | Surrounded by snow and dressed in concert clothes , the two musicians played for a German television crew and a small audience of artists while Serb snipers perched only 150 yards away at the front line took pot shots . |
| 19 | At least two reasons account for the latter . |
| 20 | There are two bells hung from a stout beam , thought to be from the old church , and eight tubular bells given in 1888 . |
| 21 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 22 | As a preliminary , we must note that Thai has two forms to correspond to the English word old ; one is ( with superscript 2 indicating low tone ) which is used of animate beings , and the other is , applied to inanimates . |
| 23 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 24 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 25 | Parliament is to be taken to have intended that the difficulties such a wide ambit may create will be sufficiently overcome by two safeguards built into the statutory scheme . |
| 26 | In class structure grammar ( see under grammar ) , most clauses have only one subject , but there are occasions where two subjects occur in the same clause . |
| 27 | It meant spending two months living in the spare bedroom and the kitchen , the only rooms not used by the crew , while the cast — including Vanessa Redgrave , Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and , fresh from The Silence of the Lambs , Anthony Hopkins — were filming . |
| 28 | We had about two months to prepare for the seven of them ; a period useful not only for the co-ordinating of the PR assault but also , I believe , a safety gap , a firebreak , a time in which the military could take stock , an interval in which Goreng could see if there was to be a resurgence of the lost FAKINTIL in the hills . |
| 29 | A good part of the wit of these two fabliaux lies in the incongruous mixture of the urbane and sophisticated amusement they have to offer with the notionally rude and crude character of the churls ' minds . |
| 30 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |