Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 2 | A nerveless downhill rider can take two minutes out of a cautious descender in just 20 kilometres . |
| 3 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 4 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 5 | Exiles secretary John Hunter said last night : ‘ We felt we were reasonable in only asking for two players out of a possible six . |
| 6 | This mesmerising son et lumière actually takes place two floors up in a domed planetarium at the Cité De Science , a futuristic and eerily empty complex in the Parisian outskirts chosen by The Orb 's French label Delabel as an ideal launch pad for ‘ UF Orb ’ . |