Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [subord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1948 , when the Health Service began , to 1990 , current expenditure in real terms ( excluding price increases ) rose more than two and a half times . |
| 2 | The aim is to raise money for former Resistance workers who helped more than two thousand Allied servicemen evade capture.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 3 | The aim is to raise money for former Resistance workers who helped more than two thousand Allied servicemen evade capture.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 4 | Janice Lancaster , from Milton Keynes , beat more than two thousand nominees for the title , which is open to NHS employees . |
| 5 | The latest meeting between representatives from North Down and the Education and Library Board came less than two weeks after the opening of the new Holywood Library in Sullivan Place in the town . |
| 6 | Mr Christopher 's speech came less than two weeks before a scheduled introductory summit meeting between President Bill Clinton and Mr Yeltsin . |
| 7 | The death of the former war hero came less than two months before the federated Czechoslovakia he had believed in was to split . |
| 8 | Those two painstaking decades produced more than two books of biographies . |
| 9 | The next Human League album , Dare , sold more than two million copies and was a major factor in digging Virgin out of its parlous financial state . |
| 10 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 11 | In Bradshaw and Holmes ' study of two-parent , two-child households on benefit , about three-quarters of the women and men lacked more than two items of basic clothing , with women 's clothing tending to be in the worst condition and children 's in the best ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | It happened less than two days after a fourteen year old girl from Birmingham was killed in a joyriding incident . |
| 13 | As for BR yesterday , its Press office said it was considered Mr McArdle had received an apology in the letter which arrived more than two months after his original complaint . |
| 14 | But the Association of Metropolitan Authorities predicted more than two million would complain . |
| 15 | The earth shook again as two mighty hammers pounded cooling plates of iron . |
| 16 | Both buildings caught fire after the explosion and at least 10 fire engines spent more than two hours fighting the flames , police said . |
| 17 | The flight of Asil Nadir on May 4th has destroyed the fraud case it spent more than two years and oodles of money building against him . |
| 18 | Fire crews spent more than two hours tackling a severe blaze in an empty Middlesbrough house yesterday . |
| 19 | The latest figures show that seventy-six companies per day are failing in Britain , the highest rate since the recession began more than two years ago . |
| 20 | Cordia was a principality that vanished more than two hundred years ago . ’ |
| 21 | COMPANY failures in England and Wales have soared to their highest level since the recession started more than two years ago , according to new figures out yesterday . |
| 22 | COMPANY failures in England and Wales have soared to their highest level more than three an hour since the recession started more than two years ago , according to new figures out today . |
| 23 | COMPANY failures in England and Wales have soared to their highest level more than three an hour since the recession started more than two years ago . |
| 24 | Juveniles dominated the exposed shore and she thought few adults survived more than two years . |
| 25 | The narrowest run margin was 68 runs , and no first-class side batting second lost more than two wickets . |
| 26 | In the rural communities of previous centuries most families included more than two generations — the extended family — and the families of land-owners were further extended to include the indoor and sometimes the outdoor servants . |
| 27 | Given that our Delegation 's 15 votes formed less than two thirds of a quota and bearing in mind that this was a first attempt , it was felt that this was a somewhat ambitious foray into the politics of the wider Trade Union Movement . |
| 28 | It took less than two years for the computer to change from being perceived as a threat and as something only big businesses would use to something one buys for doing income tax . |
| 29 | But hardly had the applause for the Collector died down when two hands reached up and dragged him down the stairs by his braces and into the crowd . |
| 30 | Solicitors represented less than two per cent of those represented . |