Example sentences of "[verb] to two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sessions last 45 minutes , and four instructors cater for a maximum of 24 children in the following groups ; walking to two years , 2–3 years , 3–4 years , 4–5 years . |
| 2 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 3 | At the par-five second , his third shot hit the pin and dropped to two feet . |
| 4 | For the determination of total carnitine , 150 ml of ammonia ( 33% ) was added to two tubes and incubated for an hour at 37°C . |
| 5 | The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance . |
| 6 | ii The National Study of Health and Growth ( NSHG ) , a surveillance study including , each year , around 9000 children aged 5–11 years , has previously reported results relating to two effects of passive smoking in children : firstly , a possible negative relation between children 's height and the reported number of cigarettes smoked by parents in the home , and secondly , a dose-response relation between prevalence of respiratory symptoms and parental smoking . |
| 7 | At midday , Scott returned to the studio with twenty minutes of film footage , which would be edited to two minutes plus . |
| 8 | However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years . |
| 9 | The end of his second term of chairmanship — shortened to two years at his request — comes as Glasgow faces the prospect of most of the city 's major hospitals being devolved to trust status . |
| 10 | If the melodic line were confined to two octaves with all the violins on the top octave and the violas and cellos in unison on the lower octave , no woodwind doubling of the strings would be necessary , and the woodwind would then be used to double the brass chords . |
| 11 | Whether , however , their precise significance in the late fifteenth century is as described in the Kanunname — that is , whether at this early stage of the development of the medrese system they were already confined to two classes of 50-akce medreses — is perhaps more open to question , though the very real possibility that the geographical sense and the designation of rank were once conterminous should not be overlooked in this connection . |
| 12 | The eusocial insects are confined to two orders , the Isoptera ( termites ) and the Hymenoptera ( bees , wasps , ants ) . |
| 13 | Lightly prune to two levels new stems on bushes and standards once flowering ends , top dress with fertiliser and how . |
| 14 | He referred to two documents where the Yugoslavs gave undertakings about treatment of repatriated citizens . |
| 15 | And you referred to two sorts of allocations , one , those in adopted local plans and the figure was if you could remind me please . |
| 16 | Sitting in Manchester , the judge said after listening to two hours of legal argument from counsel for Blandford , his wife and the Official Solicitor , that he now had no power to rectify his error made on May 17 when he ordered the Marquess to be jailed if he failed to pay the money in two weeks . |
| 17 | Very refreshing after listening to two terms of this death-of-the-author stuff . ’ |
| 18 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 19 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 20 | One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto . |
| 21 | If they can come to a binding agreement , the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years . |
| 22 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 23 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 24 | CHONG SON-HEE : a 33-year old artist , she was sentenced to two years ’ imprisonment under the National Security Law in July 1991 for carrying out activities allegedly benefiting North Korea . |
| 25 | DMITRY SOKOLOV : aged 21 , he was sentenced to two years ' compulsive labour by a court in Russia on 5 May 1991 for ‘ evasion of regular call-up to active military service ’ under Article 80 of the Criminal Code . |
| 26 | Christopher Casabona was sentenced to two years probation after a jury heard how he tied up a woman lodger at her Felixstowe home before leaving with a 15-year-old girl . |
| 27 | He was subsequently sentenced to two years imprisonment . |
| 28 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 29 | She was sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 30 | I was sentenced to two years in prison . |