Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If the recent burst of consumer demand is sustained in the next two or three months , it should ultimately be translated into increases in production , employment and income . |
2 | Productivity and product wages determine the course of the profit share and an account of their movements is given in the next two sections . |
3 | If , for example , the bulk of the academic element is contained in the first two years of a course , then the second two can be devoted to developing teaching strategies . |
4 | The introduction to the study is contained in the first two or three paragraphs of the article , which also briefly summarize its results and implications . |
5 | A final decision is expected in the next two weeks , although the Government yesterday refused to confirm or deny reports that it was to scrap the registers . |
6 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
7 | For now , attention is focused on the first two reasons why firms invest , rather than rely purely on third-party trade . |
8 | For example , for 2 × 2 weaving , the weaving yarn is laid over the first two needles , under the next two needles , over the next two needles and so on . |
9 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
10 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
11 | The business gift sector is characterised by seasonal demand , and it is estimated that 80 per cent of this business is conducted in the last two months of every year . |
12 | Mrs. X told me in a telephone conversation today that the acting commanding officer and the warrant officer , who is the family officer , have informed her that the man is to return within the next two weeks . |
13 | Mathematics is studied throughout the first two years . |
14 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
15 | An open meeting of students and staff is held in the first two terms of each year ( usually in week 7 ) , principally for students to express views and opinions to the Dean and staff . |
16 | A trial programme of prescribing methadone is to begin in the next two weeks at Edinburgh 's Saughton prison . |