Example sentences of "[vb past] only two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 2 | But she got only two steps . |
| 3 | Would he have attacked more children at school if he had destroyed only one tower and stabbed only two dolls ? |
| 4 | With the years , it had seemed to get heavier , so that now she made only two excursions a week , mostly to the outskirts , making a point never to visit the same house more than twice a year . |
| 5 | According to the Bronte sisters , Aylott and Jones , the publishers of their Poems ( 1846 ) , sold only two copies . |
| 6 | … that Charlotte Bronte turned to novel writing only after her Poems , written jointly with her two sisters , sold only two copies ? |
| 7 | The much celebrated correspondence in the matter of Arkell v Pressdram involved only two letters : the first , from the solicitors Goodman Derrick & Co , to the editor of " Private Eye " , ended with the familiar legal demand : " Mr Arkell 's first concern is that there should be a full retraction at the earliest possible date in " Private Eye " and he will also want his costs paid . |
| 8 | But when one learns that the whole project involved only two months of actual field research ( July-August 1936 ) , it becomes obvious that , in this case , the success of the enterprise must have been heavily dependent upon Fei 's prior local knowledge . |
| 9 | Property crimes rated only two mentions apiece and yet crimes against both property and men are far more common than attacks against women . |
| 10 | Studying The Times in Bridget 's kitchen , Loretta found only two paragraphs about the affair . |
| 11 | Third worldism , Laingian theories of schizophrenia blended with Marcuse , black power , and elements of Trotskyism that excluded only two groups , not insignificant ones — women and the working class . |
| 12 | Eventually perhaps , but a Senate hearing on June 22 on the proposal drew only two Senators , one of whom quickly departed for another engagement . |
| 13 | Minton drove only two yards , into a ditch , and encouraged Ricky and Roy at seaside resorts to pursue the girls , sitting glumly alone in cafés while they did so . |
| 14 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 15 | Because of the present shortage of entrants to general practice , we received only two replies to each of our advertisements . |
| 16 | It goes on to state that the cell had no electricity and no floor covering , the prisoners were allowed few clothes and they received only two meals a day , one consisting of a single very small momo ( steamed bun ) and the other of a small cup of wormy vegetables . |
| 17 | The convoy 's armed escort comprised only two destroyers and two corvettes . |
| 18 | The first Commons debate on world climate change came only two days after the prime minister 's theme-setting UN speech on the environment in November 1989 , yet at no stage in its five-hour course was it attended by more than fourteen MPs . |
| 19 | Significantly , the ruling came only two days before tens of thousands of people took part in a march from Moscow 's Gorky Park to Manezh Square outside the Kremlin to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Ryzhkov and his government . |
| 20 | This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’ |
| 21 | The PAC 's condemnation came only two weeks after a meeting between delegations led respectively by Makwetu and Mandela , the first formal contact between the two movements for 30 years . |
| 22 | The by-election came only two weeks after the ending of universal free hospital care . |
| 23 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 24 | The second arrived only two minutes later , and again Meninga was involved , this time with a forceful run up the right wing before crisp passing allowed Chris O'Sullivan a clear path to the posts . |
| 25 | His playing partner , someone called Arnold Palmer , arrived only two minutes before the appointed time with a a veteran 's aplomb . |
| 26 | He spent only two years at school . |
| 27 | Three putts cost her a stroke at the 18th , which she followed with an eagle three at the 430-yard first when her seven-iron second finished only two feet from the hole . |
| 28 | In fairness none of them appeared at the Berlin show that began only two days after Paris , a show signalling a new frontier for the German manufacturers , who may just , in 10 years ' time , give the French as much to think about as the Japanese do . |
| 29 | The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left , having never got to see Macquairie , the south coast , or the promising territory around Port Davy . |
| 30 | He examined only two FT-SE index futures contracts , March 1985 and June 1985 , and a significant maturity effect was found for only the June 1985 contract . |