Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] two [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment .
2 Oh yes you know sometimes an artist says the picture is his and two years later he denies and says it 's a false one
3 But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week .
4 All the officers , except Dias himself and two others , sought asylum either with the British Consul ( and went on board the London ) or in the neutral zone in the hotels .
5 Benjamin 's next account is dated May 1847 and his pare was once again himself and two boys but this time for three months .
6 Himself and two colleagues , and even a car found for the escape run , and a homemade pistol that would be sufficient to unnerve the cashier clerks .
7 Not like the old days when me and two women from the village did the lot .
8 Yes , yes , now that group have come into me and two weeks after they 've worn the hairpiece they 've got a job after two and half years of not finding work , so what do you say to that ?
9 And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’
10 On 10 June she and two companions , in a motor car , encountered a German roadblock at Salon-la-Tour , some thirty miles south-east of Limoges .
11 The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes .
12 That 's two cups for you and two cups for me .
13 For the best results , the framework has to be strong enough to support itself and two thicknesses of 12mm plasterboard .
14 And who but two women like that would be pigheaded enough to try and run a restaurant there ? ’
15 If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’
16 They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion .
17 I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school .
18 Erm it would be for the the policy itself to define the criteria such that it did only refer to exceptional circumstances and the occasional one or two cases .
19 aye , let's have a separate meeting on that I mean I 've largely left it up to and and one or two others that I 've met up there
20 Now we 've only done this one or two times .
21 The difference between these two numbers in chess terms is much smaller than one would think ; not much more than being able to see an additional one or two moves ahead , plus giving special attention to checks and sequences involving piece exchanges and captures .
22 Picture a warm summer evening in June and the normal one or two travellers who would join the Heart of Wales Line at Craven Arms .
23 We 're gon na use this one or two sheets of A four .
24 From reading these accounts it would appear that three main changes have taken place in family structure and functioning over the past one or two centuries :
25 The larger hotels provide an occasional cabaret , and most hotels are visited on a regular one or two nights a week basis by Madeiran folk-dancing groups .
26 We will introduce a credit-based system , enabling students to achieve a diploma after the equivalent of two years , with the option of a further one or two years ' study leading to a degree .
27 Weight and haematological and viochemical indices were analysed at diagnosis and after one and two years on the diet by means of the paired t test ( Table ) .
28 ‘ This they have done by drawing up a ‘ list ’ of recommended books for children of different ages which are , almost without exception , not one but two generations old .
29 The new circus company Ra Ra Zoo bring not one but two shows to the region this month .
30 Using scrap metal and steel porter 's barrow , they designed and built a trolley specifically for the job which carries not one but two sets in perfect safety and with greater manoeuvrability .
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