Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAND PUPPETS made to look like mature Californian condors are being used by biologists at the San Diego wild animal park to nurse the first two Californian condor chicks born in captivity through the early weeks of life . |
| 2 | With the McDevitt brothers filling the first two places it was left to Des Wilkinson and Les Coatup in fourth and seventh positions to give Wirral an easy win ahead of Sefton . |
| 3 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 4 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 5 | This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities . |
| 6 | Young blood won the first two foursomes — Chris Bradshaw and Nigel Parsons by two and one , Mark Stewart and Martin Patmore by three and two . |
| 7 | While sheet B was being printed off — from two formes , inner B and outer B — the compositor prepared the next two formes , inner and outer C , with another two sets of running titles ; then he got on with something else . |
| 8 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 9 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 10 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 11 | The German played the last two rounds of the French Open with painkilling injections in her right foot but medics have now ruled out a stress fracture , diagnosing an inflammation of tissue membrane covering a bone in the foot . |
| 12 | Mushtaq took the last two wickets to finish England off for 255 , the 10 having fallen for 132 in 45 overs . |
| 13 | The Conwy pairing of Gary Macara and Roy Williams won the last two holes to level the match and then won at the 19th after Flint had put their tee shot out of bounds . |
| 14 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 15 | And so it proved , for the horse with no chance was not going to accommodate the pundits now : Foinavon jumped the last two and set off up the run-in still twenty lengths to the good . |
| 16 | Consistently , Owen rhymes the last two words in the fifth and seventh lines of each stanza , which is very effective . |
| 17 | It took a while to identify the first two but we 've finally managed to do that . |
| 18 | Last December the Royal Navy ordered the first two Type 22 frigates of a new design , with much heavier armament than design , predecessors . |
| 19 | Placing great importance on this latter aspect Whitaker decided the first two scripts should be written by the same author , who would thus maintain an overall series continuity . |
| 20 | Geoffrey stressed the last two words . |
| 21 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |
| 22 | Since in the pizza query the last two words in the name are descriptive of the business , the Mothercare case is well in point and helpful to the reader and his client . |
| 23 | The hot and humid weather that had been suffocating Paris continued the next two days . |
| 24 | The Olympic silver medallist faces the first two finishers in the 1500 metres at the UK Championships , Enfield 's Steve Crabb and Paul Larkins of Nene Valley Harriers . |
| 25 | B. Or MEDICAL PHYSICS , by means of a two year block release course commencing the last two weeks in September 1991 . |
| 26 | The inset shows the last two membrane-spanning regions and the C-terminal cytoplasmic tail of the skeletal RYR . |
| 27 | Internal evidence in regard to such details as the use of motor cars or the social idiom and manners of the characters suggests the first two decades of our century but the wise reader will accept a certain anonymity as an integral part of the fiction . |
| 28 | Gray , recently signed by Sunderland in an £850,000 deal from Luton missed the last two internationals — against Lithuania and Latvia away — because of injury . |
| 29 | Fragolli crossed the first two fingers of each hand in the universal Russian sign for prison and everything connected with it . |
| 30 | Victorine measured the last two rows of unpicked tomatoes with her sharp blue eyes . |