Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] two " in BNC.

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1 Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages , two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language .
2 IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ?
3 anapaest ( US anapest ) In prosody , a foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable : I am " mon/arch of " all/I sur'vey .
4 True blank verse is written in iambic pentameters ( that is , each line is divided into five metrical feet , each foot consisting of two syllables with the stress on the second syllable ) .
5 A thank you letter received from St. Clare 's Hospice for a cheque given for two hundred and eighty pounds .
6 This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges .
7 He took a cardboard box and from it drew a toy consisting of two monkeys with bright brown fur and boot-button eyes .
8 The damage amounted to two hundred and fifty pounds .
9 When an elastic wave is obliquely incident at a fluid-solid interface , the refracted wave splits into two components : dilatational and transverse .
10 The range has eight firing points on two levels .
11 We let the Pacer loose on two testers — one fast , one slow .
12 He suffered a jaw broken in two places which had to be wired up for five weeks .
13 Not every fight starts with two people standing watching each other .
14 On April 21 the IAEA requested further details of stocks of weapons-grade uranium located at two research reactors south of Baghdad .
15 The wastes that go down the drain come from two main sources , the textiles themselves and the residues of chemicals employed in treating them .
16 Dysuria and urethral discharge are the main presenting symptoms , appearing anything from one to six weeks after catching the infection , with the majority occurring at two or three weeks .
17 What I do find unacceptable is the noise emitted from two particular types of machinery .
18 One tablespoon full of powder mixed with two of water was the equivalent of one average sized whole egg .
19 The theory of multiple authorship is more usual in explaining repetitions such as the Creation story appearing in two different ( and slightly contradictory ) accounts .
20 That damage occurred in two ways .
21 In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination .
22 For example my mum looks after two little boys who are both three .
23 ALEGAL and financial fight erupted between two of the world 's largest oil companies yesterday as Chevron rushed to raise its defences against a potential bid from smaller rivals Pennzoil .
24 This molecule has a central tungsten atom surrounded by two five atom carbon rings and two hydrogen atoms .
25 In the academic year 1990/91 , work by the staff of the Department led to two national awards .
26 The building site was surrounded by a token fence consisting of two slack strands of barbed wire .
27 THE girl allegedly abandoned by Senator Edward Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick car tragedy lived for two hours afterwards , it is claimed .
28 Airline finances and particularly those of small independents are very volatile , sometimes the difference between profit and loss resting on two or three additional seats being filled .
29 All clients involved in this study lived in two large hospitals in Kent , Darenth Park and Leybourne Grange .
30 It then suggested a pattern of full-time study consisting of two courses , which were dubbed C1 and C2 .
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