Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kolchinsky drove the short distance to the Bellevue Hospital , conveniently situated less than two miles away from both the hotel and the United Nations building . |
| 2 | John Bowman , the chief executive of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , has resigned less than two years into his five-year contract . |
| 3 | When he came within sight of the front door , the car was parked outside and two men helping a third up the steps . |
| 4 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 5 | Some drivers were still trapped more than two hours after the crash . |
| 6 | He looked — which Tobie in particular did n't care for — uncommonly like the way he had looked more than two years before at a place called Skylolimne ; and later at another place called Kerasous . |
| 7 | The golfer , Ian Woosnam , has been fined more than two thousand pounds and banned from driving after he was found to be twice over the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his car worth eighty thousand pounds . |
| 8 | The details of this can not be considered here but two observations must be made . |
| 9 | It was built successfully but two attempts to emulate and balance it soon ran into difficulties . |
| 10 | The affair was revealed more than two months ago , with details of their telephone ‘ love chats ’ . |
| 11 | A coach firm is claiming that it 's owed more than two thousand pounds by a charity set up to help Bosnian children . |
| 12 | You have n't said more than two words since you got here . " |
| 13 | I 've not said more than two words to her since then , but they remember her mother ( so charming , so ladylike , so rich ) because they have placed her in a box in their heads marked " suitable " . |
| 14 | No member of the household has made more than two claims or made a single claim above £2,500 on home insurance in the last two years |
| 15 | Magdalen bridge has seen more than two hundred winters . |
| 16 | An approved rod or other instrument had to be used for this purpose , and the punishment was not to be applied more than two hours after the offence . |
| 17 | It was built originally as two cottages , and one of the most striking features of the house is that the ceiling at the front is at a different level to that at the back . |
| 18 | Question 21 Where completion is delayed more than two return mortgage funds to the lender ? |
| 19 | He said that the oil , which was spilled more than two months ago , had seeped into cracks and crevices along the coast and more had settled above the tide mark and on the sea bed . |
| 20 | He even used a place name gain as a title : it was called " East Coker " , the village from which Andrew Eliot had travelled more than two centuries before . |
| 21 | Planning officials insisted on an environmental assessment being carried out when the scheme was first mooted more than two years ago . |
| 22 | He was told less than two weeks ago of the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke 's , refusal to refer the Bridgewater case to the Court of Appeal . |
| 23 | Over half ( 235 , 56% ) of 419 employed adults with cystic fibrosis had had less than two weeks ' sick leave in the previous year , and 34% ( 144 ) had had less than 1 week . |
| 24 | Cork , aiming to combine playing with a new career in management when his Bramall Lane contract expires next summer , added : ‘ I should have had more than two goals this season because I kept missing chances . |
| 25 | He had slept more than two hours . |
| 26 | If you 've got more than two , you are anyway . |
| 27 | Paper seller Gerard O'Hare , 18 , had just got home when two members of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters burst into the house with guns blazing . |
| 28 | But for Pisa , which has lost much of its income from tourism since the tower was closed more than two years ago for safety reasons , the real miracle is that work is to start at last . |
| 29 | Or a manufacturer could specify minimum quantity ( quantity forcing ) , or details of service and demonstration facilities , or quality criteria ( e.g. no hamburger to be sold more than two minutes after being cooked ) . |
| 30 | Hong Kong 's special interest to the zoologist is that it is situated practically where two zoo-geographical regions meet , the Oriental , in which it actually lies , and the Palaearctic . |