Example sentences of "two [noun pl] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 2 | Two researchers at the prestigious Salk institute in San Diego , California have proposed an alternative theory : that the Spanish oil syndrome is a violent auto-immune disease ( that is , the body attacks itself ) triggered by an elusive bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumoniae . |
| 3 | Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required . |
| 4 | This is a good song because it not only has actions but can also be sung by two groups at the same time . |
| 5 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 6 | They spent £100 on recording the two songs at the tiny Billiard Room studio , which is housed in a garage connected to a large house in a residential part of Leeds . |
| 7 | United , leading 3-0 at the time , conceded two goals at the final whistle . |
| 8 | Two subjects at the same level in the hierarchy ( for example , both subdivisions of the same parent or superordinate subject ) are said to be coordinate . |
| 9 | Death by soap Those naughty TV people have upset Sharon Griffiths ( Echo March 24 ) by having football on two channels at the same time . |
| 10 | The crucial feature of the market as a coordination device is that it involves voluntary exchange of goods and services between two parties at a known price . |
| 11 | As expected ( UX No 393 ) , Data General Corp last week rolled out eight-way , high-end versions of its Motorola Inc 88000 RISC-based symmetric multi-processing AViiON servers , plus two models at the low end . |
| 12 | In conversation at Corry , Johnson heard the stories he longed for — of men seeing visions , of examples of ‘ second sight ’ on Skye ; Mrs Mackinnon 's father had once met some women who , while working in a field , heard ghostly voices , signifying imminent death ; he later met two funerals at the predicted place . |
| 13 | The children were members of two classes at a secondary school in Leytonstone , London E11 . |
| 14 | Mr Endara , looking drawn from a 16-day-hunger strike in protest at the government refusal to recognise his victory in May 's annulled election , was unharmed but two aides at the Liberal Party office , which serves as the opposition coalition headquarters , were arrested . |
| 15 | Nobody can be in two places at the same time . |
| 16 | You see , ladies and gentlemen , whatever happens in life , no person can ever be in two places at the same time , for the laws of the Universe forbid it . |
| 17 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 18 | More than 800 employees stopped work for two hours on March 14 in protest at plans to appoint 44 staff members and outside consultants to senior executive positions and create 20 new senior posts over the next two years at an estimated cost of US$6,200,000 . |
| 19 | REPUBLIC of Ireland defender Mick McCarthy took charge of Millwall yesterday when former Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch resigned after two years at the Second Division club . |
| 20 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 21 | James Beveridge , 36 , unemployed , of no settled address , was jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after admitting making a hoax bomb call to Gatwick airport . |
| 22 | Division of the sediment into two fractions at an early stage is therefore recommended . |
| 23 | I was going to say as long as you do n't both have two days at the same time . |
| 24 | Seeing there were only two seats at the small table , she plumped down on my lap . |
| 25 | This could be described as a hybrid Bill and , in a sense , we are considering two questions at the same time . |
| 26 | It 's very difficult to do er two things at the same time . |
| 27 | It had returned at about 11pm , however , and fired two missiles at a residential area . |
| 28 | By a horizontal merger we mean the union of two firms at the same production stage in the same industry , for example the merger of two steel producers or two motor car manufacturers . |
| 29 | She took only 16 , about two pounds at the black market rate . |
| 30 | Those are the three chords for the chorus , but the melody and harmony represent 4ths on the first two strings at the fifth fret , third fret and then open . |