Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawke 's own losses amounted to two ships , a 74 and a 64 , and 300–400 men . |
| 2 | Animals came in two kinds , radially and bilaterally symmetrical . |
| 3 | However , her favourite roles came in two Glenn Miller movies Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) , as the band 's vocalist ( Pat Friday dubbing her singing ‘ I Know Why ’ ) , and as one of the Orchestra Wives the following year . |
| 4 | The brakes consisted of two inefficient rear brakes and one transmission front brake , usually full of oil . |
| 5 | In the Triassic Period , 225 to 190 million years ago , before the age of dinosaurs , the predominant groups of herbivorous land animals belonged to two quite different groups of reptiles : the synapsids , or mammal-like reptiles ; and the rhynchosaurs . |
| 6 | When he lost his temper , and that was often , his cheeks puffed up and his eyes shrank to two small , bottomless black pits . |
| 7 | The books fell into two roughly equal groups : occult studies and lives of famous and infamous men and women through history . |
| 8 | Dong , because of his unusual height , had a clear view of the new arrivals above the heads of the crowd — and within a matter of seconds his startled eyes fell on two familiar faces that he had not seen for well over a year . |
| 9 | Her eyes fell on two empty jam jars standing on a shelf , and then her mind flew to the clumps of snowdrops she 'd noticed blooming near the entrance to the shearers ' quarters . |
| 10 | So far as material culture is concerned , the Siberian peoples fell into two main categories . |
| 11 | Approximately 100 US soldiers , in Aden since mid-December under a bilateral agreement to provide facilities in support of " Operation Restore Hope " in Somalia [ see p. 39225 ] , were withdrawn on Dec. 31 after bombs exploded at two Aden hotels on Dec. 29 . |
| 12 | The number of radio licences rose from two to eight million between 1926 and 1939 with 71 per cent of all households having a wireless by the Second World War . |
| 13 | Recurrent oral and vaginal yeast infections occurred in two patients receiving cyclosporin and oral thrush occurred in one patient receiving placebo . |
| 14 | In the push across the frontier in the centre , the Iraqis drove towards two specific areas : Qasr-e-Shirin and nearby Sar-e-Pol-e-Zahab on the road to Tehran ; and Mehran and Bostan/Susangerd , farther south and guarding the approach to central Khuzestan . |
| 15 | Mice immunized with two doses of such cells were protected against a subsequent lethal challenge with the tumour , and experiments in which the immunization is used to induce a response against an established tumour are under way . |
| 16 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 17 | The Master 's duties fell into two areas : he had to teach " the science of grammar " — effectively Latin — and also , every Wednesday and Friday , to pray in St. Mary 's Church for the souls of the founder 's mother and father . |
| 18 | In a second study by Gifford et al , cimetidine had a protective effect in mice implanted with two different syngeneic tumours ; lymphoid ascitic cells and a fibrosarcoma despite the cells being unaffected by the agent in vitro . |
| 19 | At the boundary riding on the 20th June 1884 , young men aged above eighteen years raced for two sovereigns given by the mayor from the ancient beacon to Deepdale Tree . |
| 20 | Every delegation sent out by the strikers to talk to workers at other factories consisted of two men and two women . |
| 21 | Lenders fell into two camps , depending on how much they fear a further drying up of already moribund mortgage demand . |
| 22 | First and second places went to two runners from the Lochaber hill racing club , who returned times of 29.04 and 31.52 minutes . |
| 23 | Explore the underground installations , browse in the museum , stand by the guns and look out over the Channel as gunners did in two wars . |
| 24 | Applicants queued for two days for a total of 5,000,000 application forms on a first-come first-served basis . |
| 25 | The measures to fulfil these three aims came in two main batches : in the frantic activity of the " First Hundred Days " from March to June 1933 , and in a second burst of legislation in 1935 . |
| 26 | Records Managers fell into two groups ; the first suggesting that the e-mail message had no legal status since , there was no signature and , due to the lack of control over people allowing their staff access to personal accounts via their own password , there was no proof that the sender was in fact the account holder from which the message was logged . |
| 27 | The algae disappeared in two days . |
| 28 | By the time of Jesus , the Pharisees fasted on two days of the week , Monday and Thursday . |
| 29 | Union affiliations to the Labour Party had been confined to those " contracting in " under the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 , and the total of affiliated unionists stood at two million throughout the 1930s . |
| 30 | Follow up in non-relapsing patients ranged from two to 41.7 months ( median 9.1 months ) in the PEN group , and from 3.2 to 30.1 months ( median 7.8 months ) in the steroid group . |