Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Zealand Toxic Substances Board produced two reports in 1989 in which they compared consumption in 33 countries and prevalence in 20 advanced-economy countries over periods between 1970 and 1986 . |
| 2 | At each of the 40 junctions the driver made two judgments . |
| 3 | The impresario got two bedrooms . |
| 4 | A Palestinian stabbed two Jews to death and wounded 20 others in Tel Aviv on March 17 . |
| 5 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 6 | As New Scientist revealed two weeks ago ( 27 January , p 217 ) you will have the chance to vote on how you want a love story to end . |
| 7 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 8 | To put these contentions into effect the applicant made two applications in the district court to which the cases had been transferred . |
| 9 | Another experiment involved two sets of six sweets . |
| 10 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 11 | The First Coalition pursued two lines in the search for peace . |
| 12 | Their unusual width prevented two cars passing Albert Square Fleetwood until this curve was relaid , delaying their entry into service until the winter season 1928 . |
| 13 | York had a five-week trial with Villa at the start of the seasan after being spotted when the club played two games in Trinidad in the summer . |
| 14 | His study compared two sets of students . |
| 15 | Nerina 's card showed two years of B pluses and A minuses in communication studies and sociology , and then a term of Cs and Ds , and then back up to straight As . |
| 16 | He had lived in Stepney for most of his life and had come to South London to work for Joe Maitland when the warehouse opened two years ago . |
| 17 | Alton Cycling Club fielded two members : Jeff McGill recorded 25–33 and Stuart Willis 25–50 . |
| 18 | The result echoed two straw polls which were conducted by the Herald earlier in the month . |
| 19 | The failure of the bid followed two months of bitter rivalry , claims and counter-claims between executives of both groups . |
| 20 | Remarkably , the five-month build programme finished two weeks ahead of schedule , despite being dogged by bad weather . |
| 21 | The 29-year-old Yorkshireman finished two shots ahead of Argentinian Vicente Fernandez at Saint Nom La Breteche , near Paris — despite hitting two spectators during the last nine holes . |
| 22 | Victims of the intensifying violence included two nephews of Mandela killed by gunmen at their home in Soweto on May 3 . |
| 23 | The study covered two health districts with a combined population of 444971 each with a stable population and negligible cross boundary flow . |
| 24 | On 15 October he gave an ‘ academy ’ ( a concert ) at the city theatre : the programme included two piano concertos which he played himself ( K.459 in F , noted by one listener as a work of ‘ gentillesse and great charm ’ , and K.537 in D , subsequently known as the ‘ Coronation ’ ) , a symphony ( presumably one of the 1788 group ) , and various arias and piano pieces . |
| 25 | He began his planning in January but found practice curtailed two weeks ago by a heavy snowfall . |
| 26 | Before the Gulf war , the cartel sanctioned two fare increases , which have yet to be reversed despite the subsequent fall in fuel prices . |
| 27 | They liked him even less when they discovered he hated playing rugby , especially on cold winter mornings when the ground was as hard as concrete and the snow lay two feet deep . |
| 28 | The Corrective Action took two forms — formal monitoring of the beard blower 's operation and increased awareness of the complaint through publicity . |
| 29 | They loaded the Zodiac dinghy , outboard motor , and the limpet mines into the camper and drove south , reaching Auckland around 7.30 p.m. where witnesses living at Stanley Point on the northern shore of Auckland Harbour saw two men take an inflatable dinghy out of a camper van and carry it down to the water 's edge . |
| 30 | Publicity manager David Turner , said that Open Accounting took two years to develop because the Harrogate , Yorkshire company writes software from scratch for each new architecture . |