Example sentences of "[conj] in two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care .
2 ‘ Duart is forbidden visitors today , my lady , so that in two days he may be fit for the ceremony .
3 He went upstairs with his wife , and in two minutes they were asleep .
4 Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton .
5 It is highly unlikely that any of the Pacific fish used in these tests had ever encountered a sea snake previously and in two instances they certainly could not have done so .
6 Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time .
7 For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds .
8 They either slept in a car or on the ground with a blanket , though in two days they would be far enough south for the nights to be warm .
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