Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | New voices are required to join the chorus for the annual Two Cathedral 's Festival taking place in mid-October . |
| 2 | Andrew Jean , her lieutenant for the past two years , was a few yards away , skin in shreds , orange beehive hairdo picked to pieces . |
| 3 | Sixty-two MPs , equally divided between Christians and Muslims , have been in this Saudi resort for the past two weeks examining a ‘ National Reconciliation Charter ’ drafted by Arab League mediators as the basis for a permanent peace . |
| 4 | Eventually — and with some relief — we were out into open water and setting course for the other two large islands in the group , Barentsøvya and Edgeøya . |
| 5 | Mr Diplexcito , his wife and three daughters have fought a rearguard action for the past two years to stop their cottage at Spittalburn , where they have lived for the past 17 years , being buried by earthworks . |
| 6 | USL has been discreetly nurturing the unprecedented deal for the past two years , out-manoeuvering IBM 's attempt to get OS/2 adopted . |
| 7 | Vice-President Itamar Franco , who had been acting President since Collor 's suspension in September , was immediately sworn in by a joint session of the Congress as President for the remaining two years of the five-year presidential term . |
| 8 | LEICESTER went into the match against Charlton hoping to equal the best winning run in the club 's history … but they were up against their bogey club for the past two years . |
| 9 | Sharon has been taking evening classes at college for the past two years . |
| 10 | Marian has been the Cork Area Ladies ' Representative on the Executive Committee for the past two years . |
| 11 | At its meeting in January the Scottish Sports Council took the opportunity of paying tribute to their contribution as members of the Council for the past two years . |
| 12 | These mountains fall to the east to the flat expanse of the plateau , where San'a , the ancient capital , rests : my home for the following two and a half years . |
| 13 | Dr John Vickerman , who leads the atom bombardment team , has offered the technique on a part-time basis for the past two years . |
| 14 | The CIS have chosen the London race as their selection point for the remaining two places in the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 15 | Use this side as a guide to mark up the measurements on the opposite side , before cutting , and then repeat the process for the other two sides . |
| 16 | My mother happened to see the woman who 'd been my daughter 's form teacher for the previous two years , who was known to interfere . |
| 17 | Amanda Wright ( Tipton ) , winner of the women 's race for the past two years who set a new course record last year , will not be defending her title and so Cardiff veteran Liz Hughes looks like starting as favourite . |
| 18 | The next Senate could be a sinkhole for the final two years of Clinton 's term . |
| 19 | The East , who have won the title for the past two years , are the defending champions and they select their squad this weekend , as do the South . |
| 20 | The East , who have won the title for the past two years , are the defending champions and they select their squad this weekend , as do the South . |
| 21 | And former manager Terry Butcher , who was dismissed last January , has taken out a High Court writ for the remaining two years of his contract — an estimated £500,000 . |
| 22 | Is the Minister aware that car sales have fallen every month for the past two years and that , as a consequence , domestic production fell by 27 per cent . |
| 23 | He replaces Alan Mills , who has been in charge at Drumaness for the past two years . |
| 24 | By the way , It looks like they 've improved the ticket line a bit , there is now a queueing system which you get held on , so you now get through after about an hour rather than 3 , and then hold on in the queue for the other two hours : - ) |
| 25 | While it may be bad news for the top two auctioneers it seems to many that Phillips and Bonhams will both benefit , for they appear much more prepared to accept lower value items for their sales . |
| 26 | The canal has moved into a heavily industrial area for the final two locks , Perry Barr 3rd Flight , by the second of which is an old lock cottage covered with roses , defiantly holding on in its surroundings of chimneys , water towers , barbed wire , corrugated iron and half dismantled vehicles . |
| 27 | THE thousands of Welsh supporters who have been pouring into the Edinburgh area for the past two days are well catered for if they want to sample club rugby before tomorrow 's Royal Bank international , writes Harry Pincott . |
| 28 | So we have established a measure which we call OTIF — on time , in full — and we 've been measuring our performance in this area for the past two years . |
| 29 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 30 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |