Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Killifish can be loosely placed into two categories : top spawners and bottom spawners . |
| 2 | The mothers of 709 of these babies were successfully interviewed within two weeks of the baby 's first birthday , and the findings published ( Newson and Newson 1963 ) . |
| 3 | I can only think of two things small enough and valuable enough : precious stones or drugs . ’ |
| 4 | I can only think of two adverts with Black children on . |
| 5 | It makes me cross — all that work and then it 's all consumed in two minutes . |
| 6 | It was obviously partitioned into two rooms by a rough wooden screen . |
| 7 | One American war correspondent wrote of this incessant traffic ; ‘ The one sight of the battle of Verdun that will always live in my memory is that of the snow-covered and ice-coated road … constantly filled with two columns of trucks … |
| 8 | Spitak was originally meant to have been entirely rebuilt within two years . |
| 9 | This is also the venue for the annual Howden Agricultural Show , which every year brings friends and visitors together to revel for two days in the old-fashioned atmosphere of an English country fair . |
| 10 | Lamont also announced a reform of the UK budget system , hitherto presented in two parts , with expenditure plans announced in the autumn economic statement and revenue measures detailed in the March budget . |
| 11 | Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars . |
| 12 | Full closure of the eyes only occurs in two contexts : sleep and appeasement . |
| 13 | Fortunately the Palace directors put a prohibitive price upon his transfer , and he stayed with the club , set up a new goal-scoring record of 36 league goals in his first season ( from just 34 appearances ) , topped the Division 3(S) charts for that campaign and his output was only exceeded by two men in the entire Football League . |
| 14 | The loose grouping , which has only met on two occasions , is known unofficially as HOG , the Hilton Object Group , after its inaugural meeting at the Boston Hilton last year . |
| 15 | you must look at your lanes , you 've only got like two lanes have n't ya ? |
| 16 | Okay so , so look at two individuals in two different ways . |
| 17 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 18 | She had to wear a brace for many years before she was well enough to walk with two sticks , and I still carry in my mind the picture of her trying to walk around the room and on the landing , hobbling in her iron braces . |
| 19 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 20 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 21 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 22 | I remember once going to Anfield , losing 2-0 , and the chairman coming into the dressing room to congratulate us warmly on only losing by two goals . |
| 23 | And the Home Office says conditions were improving … single cells were now only shared by two prisoners instead of three or even four . |
| 24 | Exiles secretary John Hunter said last night : ‘ We felt we were reasonable in only asking for two players out of a possible six . |
| 25 | We only went for two days . |
| 26 | As things stand , sadly , Bailey , one of only 13 homegrown batsmen to begin the summer brandishing a career average in excess of 40 , has not so much tripped between two stools as toppled into a black hole . |
| 27 | Parliament is to be taken to have intended that the difficulties such a wide ambit may create will be sufficiently overcome by two safeguards built into the statutory scheme . |
| 28 | The second leg of our yankee is the eight forty five , well this is a sprint race ; two fifty metres , only erm only go round two bends , and therefore you have to have some erm early pace sort of erm greyhounds , and I 'm going to go for a trap one here , Chair Boy 's Blue , he 's already won plenty over this erm shorter trip . |
| 29 | At Goulbourn a large brick structure with stone quoins and cornices and a central tower and dome had been built in the 1870s , and structure with powerful round-headed arches and long arcading on two storeys was more reminiscent of Indian stations than of those of Europe or North America . |
| 30 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |