Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [num ord] two " in BNC.

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1 Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) .
2 If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds .
3 The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) .
4 Do the new words figure in exercises ? 13 Look at the first two lessons for phonological features .
5 To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals .
6 If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols .
7 But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years .
8 The first is his education : we find in the first two books of The Prelude those experiences which Wordsworth regarded as formative .
9 I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do .
10 The blastocysts continue to expand as their component cells progress through the next two cell cycles ( Figure 1 , panels 23–25 , Figure 2 , panels 9 — I 0 ) .
11 ( He says : I 've seen four welders go in the last two years .
12 Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared .
13 I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals .
14 What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves
15 In addition , opportunities exist during the first two years of the course to study further subjects which can include an additional Community language if students so wish .
16 Such expansion in a small business is particularly dangerous at this stage of its development in terms of potential survival given the number of small firms that fail in the first two years .
17 Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings .
18 When they are known , then unc which follow from the first two of Equations ( 1 ) .
19 I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme .
20 ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’
21 How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ?
22 In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places .
23 This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram .
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