Example sentences of "[adv] two [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had little to drink tonight , perhaps two glasses of champagne all evening . |
| 2 | she said if you started off with cereal porridge or something you could have perhaps two rounds of cheese on toast for your break |
| 3 | If two crops of wheat were grown two years in a row , afterwards the land would undergo four years of pasture and then perhaps two years of vegetable crops . |
| 4 | There were basically two sources of conflict . |
| 5 | There are basically two kinds of argument and constellations of opinion . |
| 6 | Throughout the philosophy of mind and certainly amongst both lay and professional psychologists there is the view that basically two kinds of fact exist : physical facts about the brain and the external world , on the one hand , and facts ‘ about how it is with us ’ , on the other . |
| 7 | There are basically two types of thief : the opportunist and the pro . |
| 8 | This research brings together two lines of enquiry into early child language which have previously been studied separately : the way in which mothers talk to their children , and the early development of children 's vocabularies . |
| 9 | DRAINED by the exercise of inferring what was holding together two pieces of stick inside a cardboard box , a first-year science pupil at Gillingham comprehensive school in north Dorset advanced the opinion that the national curriculum was ‘ just another posh name for different subjects ’ . |
| 10 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 11 | Given that you have only two lines of text to play with , and therefore a maximum of two fonts to use , gloriously grotty font clashes are unlikely . |
| 12 | Only two dimensions of cost seem to have received any systematic consideration early on — body bag numbers , and money . |
| 13 | Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there . |
| 14 | She allows herself to have no possessions , only two sets of clothing and anything else she gets from charities goes straight into making homes and clinics which provide free health care to poor mothers for their children . |
| 15 | Among his many inventions one of the most important , for which he was awarded a gold medal at the 1885 inventions exhibition , was the conjugating mechanism enabling the three valves of a triple-expansion marine engine to be driven by only two sets of valve gear . |
| 16 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 17 | With regard to right handers , Levy quotes a personal communication from Bogen to the effect that only two cases of aphasia in association with left hemiplegia occurred in 600 consecutive cases of stroke-induced aphasia , giving an estimate of 0.33 per cent right sided speech representation in right handers . |
| 18 | On Feb. 12 Farah Aydid had ordered a major attack on his rival 's strongholds in the north of the capital , leaving 16 people dead and 142 injured in only two hours of fighting , according to Western aid workers . |
| 19 | Sometimes , he said , they worked with only two feet of air along the roadways , not enough to breathe . |
| 20 | I once lost a whole Bronica set in the Maldives while in only two feet of sea — but that is another story . |
| 21 | Gillis gives the impression that reformers and other observers had only two perceptions of youth , whereas in reality there were several . |
| 22 | Between Salisbury 's retirement in 1902 and the outbreak of the Great War the individualist associations , their spokesmen , and their ideas were relegated even further to the margins of Conservative politics : only two Conservatives of note allied themselves with the individualist groups , while Dicey came to regard the Conservative party as collectivist Quislings . |
| 23 | Only two departments of production ; Dept . |
| 24 | Although the title will take only two pages of advertising , Davidson hopes that by branding it like a full-colour weekly , it will escape the image of the rather staid specialised ‘ puzzler ’ magazines . |
| 25 | There were generally only two periods of calm in the day ; between 4 and 6 a.m. and between 4 and 7 p.m. when , like subhuman troglodytes , the French gunners emerged from the ground to repair the damage . |
| 26 | J is still the overall quantum number , but the component of angular momentum along the top axis is also quantized , with quantum number K. There are still only two types of IR band , depending on whether the associated dipole change is parallel or perpendicular to the top axis . |
| 27 | 1.3 At the simplest level , we assume that there are only two types of element possible in human linguistically structured thought , entities and properties . |
| 28 | However , when JS opened their first self service shop in Croydon in 195O , there were only two types of film available — a permeable film and a moisture-proof film that could be used to wrap products such as biscuits . |
| 29 | They are only two types of doubt among many others , but they introduce us directly to the heart of our problem . |
| 30 | There are basically only two types of tea : green and black . |