Example sentences of "[adv] two [noun pl] [prep] [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 | Apart from the ‘ evidence ’ of classical Greece , another main plank of the argument in favour of this belief is the hypothesis that one is more likely to put together two statements in writing and then compare them than two oral utterances . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They are the only two microphones in use . |
| 14 | Only two dimensions of cost seem to have received any systematic consideration early on — body bag numbers , and money . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There were only two warders on duty . |
| 17 | Domestic video recorders have poor sound because the edge track runs at only two centimetres per second . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 21 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was ten o'clock , only two hours till Christmas Day and the cafe was crowded and cheerful . |
| 25 | Their nearest crag is in Sweden , which is reached in only two hours by ferry . |
| 26 | Until recently , there were only two questions in physics — the very small ( the sub-nuclear domain ) and the very large ( the Cosmos ) . |
| 27 | Sometimes , he said , they worked with only two feet of air along the roadways , not enough to breathe . |
| 28 | I once lost a whole Bronica set in the Maldives while in only two feet of sea — but that is another story . |
| 29 | Gillis gives the impression that reformers and other observers had only two perceptions of youth , whereas in reality there were several . |
| 30 | 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 . |