Example sentences of "two countries " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission kept under review the human rights situation in Afghanistan , Romania , El Salvador and Iran but sent a clear signal that it may terminate special scrutiny of the latter two countries at its next session . |
| 2 | Martina Navratilova is the only player , to date , to have represented two countries in Federation Cup competition . |
| 3 | But the Arab nationalist belief that the two countries contain one Arab people — that there was therefore something immutably wrong in the creation of Greater Lebanon — has never been abandoned . |
| 4 | Lieutenant-General Abdul Haq Ulomi , who heads the country 's most powerful military and political body , said in an interview the two countries were testing the new surface-to-surface rockets in Afghanistan by supplying them to the mujahedin to use on Kabul . |
| 5 | The hastily-arranged visit has been prompted by growing concern in the Soviet Union over the state of economic ties between the two countries . |
| 6 | Officially , the visit marks the 10th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries . |
| 7 | The two countries ' chiefs of staff , Admiral William Crowe and General Sergei Akhromeyev , have also exchanged visits since then . |
| 8 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 9 | Ferguson is flawless , a folk hero in two countries . |
| 10 | That match , for ‘ Jacki ’ , is , of course , against England , and he believes it is time for a reversal of recent results between the two countries . |
| 11 | The main item on the agenda will be reduction of troop numbers along the two countries ' common border . |
| 12 | He was responsible for the British Council 's highly successful Byron exhibition in Athens in 1974 , a timely reminder of the long-standing friendship between the two countries . |
| 13 | Mikhail Polyakov , the First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in London , said yesterday : ‘ We welcome any new trade links between our two countries . |
| 14 | But the two countries share not only embarrassment but a common mission . |
| 15 | Recent national day speeches in the two countries were almost interchangeable . |
| 16 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 17 | Products that compete with bicycles differ between the two countries . |
| 18 | One symbolic breach with age-old insularity came with the decision , confirmed in a ceremony in Canterbury Cathedral in February 1986 , for Britain and France to build a channel tunnel to provide a rail link between the two countries . |
| 19 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 20 | It was clear that the lines were drawn and that the two countries would have to compromise or find allies if the conference was not to degenerate into a complete fiasco . |
| 21 | This was quickly rejected by the conference , and the two countries moved towards the more moderate British and Canadian positions , which spoke in more general terms about an international authority and quotas on routes and frequencies . |
| 22 | ‘ Although Lebanon and Syria are two countries they are one people of the nation … which was partitioned by colonialism . ’ |
| 23 | England recovered well from a slow start and their 3 ½-½ victory over the United States was their widest margin ever in matches between the two countries . |
| 24 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 25 | Pakistan 's score was the highest by any side in a Test in Pakistan , surpassing the 561 they made against New Zealand in 1955-56 , and the highest in matches between the two countries . |
| 26 | Mr Cristiani suspended ties between the two countries in the wake of the incident and threatened to boycott tomorrow 's summit meeting unless it was moved away from its planned Managua venue . |
| 27 | The present Interior Minister , Mr Guillermo Capobianco , said his predecessor — who is also wanted in Bolivia on murder charges in connection with a 1980 coup — was sent to the US despite the absence of a formal extradition treaty between the two countries . |
| 28 | IN A gesture symbolic of the new relationship cemented in Dresden yesterday between East and West Germany , the leaders of the two countries announced that the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin would be opened before Christmas , probably on Saturday . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope for a rapprochement between our two countries , which know very little about each other , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |