Example sentences of "[adv prt] to two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi . |
| 2 | Also it 's down to two lanes running in both directions between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame , and er on the A forty one the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights , that 's between the Soldern turnoff by the Bear public house and Northampshire border , that 's going to be causing some delays . |
| 3 | Also the M forty is down to two lanes in both directions between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame . |
| 4 | The main recommendations of the Obair Report boiled down to two things . |
| 5 | To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you . |
| 6 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 7 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 8 | A slight divergence appears here in the separate chronologies ; Boswell gives the impression they danced after supper ; Johnson says , ‘ When it was time to sup , the dance ceased , and thirty persons sat down to two tables in the same room . |
| 9 | She managed to pare it down to two skirts , two jumpers , a cardigan , three coats , a hat , a dressing gown and a black lace evening dress . |
| 10 | However , many places will become dry with clear periods , allowing the temperature to fall right the way down to two degrees celsius , that 's thirty six degrees fahrenheit , leading to a ground frost and patchy fog . |
| 11 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 12 | I finally worked it down to two alternatives . |
| 13 | I cut it down to two paragraphs . ’ |
| 14 | In the face of falling demand for its Intel Corp i860 RISC compilers , The Portland Group , Wilsonville , Oregon , has shut its European office in Reading , Berkshire , which had been run down to two employees . |
| 15 | Eventually the SIB narrowed their investigations down to two electricians with pocket knives , Larry and one other . |
| 16 | Apart form requiring a certain amount of self-discipline from those doing it ( and when the legality of remote logging of work-rate seems doubtful under the health and safety laws for VDU operators ) , the tasks which seem capable of being gone this way seem to boil down to two types : self-contained project assignments ( computer programming , report writing , design ) and batch-related clerical work ( data entry or telesales ) . |
| 17 | Lighting is down to two tubes . |
| 18 | Although they had started , at the beginning of term , to pray five times a day , it was already down to two sessions . |
| 19 | For eighteen months the Government lived on a wafer-thin majority which was shaved down to two seats , and in economic circumstances of exceptional difficulty . |
| 20 | You 'd probably just restrict it down to two numbers , zero maps to zero and zero maps back to zero . |
| 21 | I went in to two corporates yesterday er and erm who are a massive potential for us , right in where we need to be |
| 22 | Thomas Duff , who had been going about his business as a messenger boy when it was said that he ‘ nearly ran in to two gentlemen ’ , put up a stout defence in court . |
| 23 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 24 | Thanks to the generosity of staff in LASMO 's London offices , bags full of loose foreign coins — worth about £500 — have been sent off to two children 's charities . |
| 25 | The bus is clocked at 66MHz and is heavily pipelined — it can continue operating while up to two cycles remain uncompleted . |
| 26 | Lates can be huge — some up to two metres long , and weighing 150 kilograms . |
| 27 | Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across . |
| 28 | You can get them up to two inches at the hilt , in the oriental style . ’ |
| 29 | There will be more rain in Wales and south-west England with up to two inches on the hills and high ground . |
| 30 | When you remove the basin brackets from the wall , it is more likely that you will damage the plaster ( there may also be some wood there with an advanced case of wet rot ) ; Allow time in the schedule for repairing the plaster before you go any further — modern d-i-y plasters can be applied up to two inches thick . |