Example sentences of "[pron] was two [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 2 | In the beginning , when I was two or three , I could n't reach the barrel — but I still had to join in . |
| 3 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 4 | Cos I was two when we left there . |
| 5 | In her late thirties , she was two or three years younger than her step-son . |
| 6 | Although she was two or three inches shorter than Charlie , she must have weighed at least a stone more than he did ; a genuine heavyweight . |
| 7 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 8 | They 'd been betrothed since she was two and , when she reached puberty , she 'd left her home village several miles away and came to join her husband and his extended family . |
| 9 | Mother , who was two or three years older , used to worry herself sick about the way he toiled , going on every hour sent in all weathers , and not stopping to change into dry clothes when the weather was wet . |
| 10 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 11 | It was an illusion that a building society has never gone bankrupt ; there was two that had done so , where investors had lost money . |
| 12 | Tell you the truth , there was two or three others after the first one went overseas , before I knew about him being dead . |
| 13 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 14 | Because there was two or three rooms there do you see , a proper place for hanging up . |
| 15 | There was two or three men that did like . |
| 16 | They had a say there was two or three counters , this man in that part had made the cargo already before they started see . |
| 17 | Well yes we had you could see on some of them , they did n't want much to turn them on , you know there was two or three there and they they took some others with them of course then did n't they , you know . |
| 18 | But there was two or three there , when the strike started you could n't trust them , they were scabs from the start . |
| 19 | Thank you Mr Chairman I would agree that there was two or three on the question of . |
| 20 | And er there was two or three or the carriage cleaners , men and women at , who er were in Edinburgh number one branch of course . |
| 21 | I thought there was two or three of these easy |
| 22 | But there was only , there was two or three times in all the time . |
| 23 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 24 | The upper deck was reached by wide sweep reversed stairs and there was two and two seating with single seats by the trolley mast . |
| 25 | There was two and two seating on the upper deck , except for two single seats by the trolley mast . |
| 26 | Mm , that one , I do n't know though did n't have a blonde woman see and I never , I did n't , I did n't realise there was two and I really did not and I suddenly there 's , they all come out on the ice |
| 27 | Well they like little , they were like little concrete stages , they was two and the they were in the river off , off this side , they were this side of the Hall Bridge . |
| 28 | I thought we had three to win , but it was two because Mr Lu got his birdie . |
| 29 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 30 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |