Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 2 | According to Barry Pierce , Curator of Australian Art at the Gallery of New South Wales , other key works are : Glover 's ‘ View of Patterdale ’ , the finest Glover in private hands ; the Skinner Prout ‘ Willoughby Falls ’ ( bought for A$180,000 at Christie 's Australia , 1986 ) , one of only two oils he ever painted ; and the Skinner Prout ‘ From Sandy Bay , Hobarton ’ ( £15,400 , Christie 's London , 1986 ) ; and McCubbin 's ‘ Feeding Time ’ ( A$630,000 at Sotheby 's Australia , 1986 ) which stand comparison with their European contemporaries . |
| 3 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 4 | He shut his mouth and swallowed hard , and in the space of about two seconds she saw a whole kaleidoscope of emotions flash in succession through his mind . |
| 5 | couple of things we saw each other and then over a space of about two months we saw each other probably about three times |
| 6 | For nearly two hours he worked his way through his agenda , more administration and finance today than scientific exploration . |
| 7 | For nearly two months they raided all over Keppoch , Moydart , Ardnamurchan , up into Cameron country . |
| 8 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 9 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |
| 10 | For nearly two weeks they used very low currents , about 0.05 amps , and discovered that the cell cooled down more than expected . |
| 11 | With only two exceptions you all did very well in your qualifying examinations and I am very proud of the school 's results , but , I am sorry , only twelve of you have been accepted for Form 1 . ’ |
| 12 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 13 | Of course , for about two years you know after and everybody went to something or other . |
| 14 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 15 | And that is only within about two miles you know an area of about two miles square . |
| 16 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 17 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 18 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |