Example sentences of "[noun sg] in two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Conditions of Contract ( fifth edition ) , retention money is repaid to a contractor in two stages , the first within 14 days after the certificate of completion has been issued , the remainder within 14 days after the end of the period of maintenance . |
| 2 | Apart from a central episode in two parts only , the whole movement follows the same pattern of double canons with the consequents a quaver later and a semitone higher . |
| 3 | The causal theory of perception relates the object and contents of perception in two directions : there is an afferent limb connecting the object with the nervous system in which perception is generated ; and an efferent limb in virtue of which the neural events ‘ reach out to ’ or ‘ are about or of ’ the object . |
| 4 | An air travel ban to Libya is due to come into force in two weeks time . |
| 5 | Hypnosis does not delve into the subconscious , but divides consciousness in two parts ; the more critical , reality orientated bit becomes less active under hypnosis , Hilgard believes . |
| 6 | Who would have guessed from his cold efficiency that this was only Damien 's second contest in two years . |
| 7 | Cerezo was elected President in two rounds of polling on Nov. 3 and Dec. 8 , 1985 , and took office on Jan. 14 , 1986 [ see pp. 34285-86 ] . |
| 8 | Marx 's ideas about Russia have for obvious reasons been discussed extensively , but this has significance for Marx 's anthropology in two ways . |
| 9 | This means you will have to focus your mind in two ways : the way you see the problem and the way your counterparts see it . |
| 10 | The vote of the Danish Folketing ( unicameral parliament ) , as was made clear after its debate on Dec. 5 , would be subject to confirmation in two referendums , as provided for in the Danish Constitution for matters affecting national sovereignty . |
| 11 | A pale yellow beam struggled down beneath the lip of the grave , illuminating the panting Stim , ankle deep in loose earth , the lid of the coffin propped to one side in two parts . |
| 12 | The resulting six photographs , arranged side by side in two rows , have been well described by Andy Grundberg as " at once an act of genetic speculation and an Oedipal nightmare " . |
| 13 | They did all the shooting in two days actually and er they made a blooming good job of it . |
| 14 | There was great jubilation in the family when he returned home to tell them that he was to start in the Despatch Department in two weeks ' time , in the huge new office in Edge Lane where Eileen worked . |
| 15 | Colour can be added to a photocopied card in two ways : first , by using coloured paper — black ink even on cream or grey ( Figures 3 and 8 ) looks much less harsh than black on white — and second , by adding colour later by hand . |
| 16 | Churchill 's friend and scientific adviser , The Prof in Two Worlds ( 1961 ) . |
| 17 | The receiving cell can adjust itself to changes in the behaviour of the transmitting cell in two ways . |
| 18 | The aim of this paper is to specify and estimate a model of the behaviour of an unemployed individual which extends previous research in two ways . |
| 19 | Primary oesophageal involvement by lymphoma in two patients , one with Hodgkin 's disease and one with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma is reported . |
| 20 | The biggest vote in two decades was on the first Common Market bill in 1974 , when 509 voted ( and more turned out ) . |
| 21 | Before the cholera outbreak in Two Years Ago ( 1857 ) , where he makes a second appearance , he alone among the landowners takes the doctor 's advice and sees that the pig keeps its distance from the cottage , and that the cottages themselves are thoroughly scoured . |
| 22 | Andalucia was further affected by a third outbreak in two years of African equine fever at the end of July 1989 , which threatened the lives of large numbers of horses and raised doubts about equestrian events being held in Barcelona in the 1992 Olympics . |
| 23 | When I knit the waistband of a skirt ( using separate method ) , I return the skirt in two halves , but , as Val reminded me the other day , it is quicker to do it all at once and here is the method : — Join back seam ( sideways knitted skirt ) or all seams . |
| 24 | Coburn wrote his first four part storyline in two sections , starting with the quest for fire plot , which he named ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ before going back to the very first episode , which had to be a more collaborative effort with the Script-Editor and the Producers . |
| 25 | His slippery feet could take him in and out of a West End emporium in two shakes of a fox 's tail , but what he collected on his way through was as much as six pairs of hands could manage . |
| 26 | SOUTH African Willie Mtolo won the New York City marathon in two hours , nine minutes and 29 seconds . |
| 27 | He thought this was a great idea and suggested I structure my talk in two parts : the training of Dawn , and a little bit about barn owls in general . |
| 28 | BP will now have a material equity in two blocks with Forties satellite prospects and the potential to add value to the Forties asset . |
| 29 | That 's a look we 'll see emerging from the dull , old chrysalis that was Renault design in the '70s and '80s , when it takes the wraps off its first really new-age car in two years ' time . |
| 30 | There 's a dance at the College in two weeks , I did n't dare to ask you . |