Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 2 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 3 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 4 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 5 | The normal subjects displayed a biphasic response with coordinate increases in both serum and urine APGPR immunoeactivity both occurring within the first two hours after the meal . |
| 6 | This , according to a Gascon petition of 1279 , was traditionally composed of the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the land and was to adjudge all cases concerning inheritance and other matters relating to the first two estates ( clergy and nobility ) of the duchy . |
| 7 | Writing about the last two jobs felt strange , largely because of the muddled emotions they still arouse . |
| 8 | A new wave in British sculpture set the art world here bussing during the last two decades of the 19th century when the status quo of classically austere , cold , funerary white marble was disturbed by the throbbing emotional statements of talented young men like Alfred Gilbert ( who gave us Eros in Piccadilly Circus ) George Frampton , Alfred Drury , Hamo Thorneycroft and others . |
| 9 | The 1st was the coldest night of the month in some places , vying with the last two nights of February , with very few really frosty nights in between . |
| 10 | This becomes clearer by looking at the first two stanzas . |
| 11 | Let's see if we can refine those like us looking at the first two lines of the play . |
| 12 | More serious still , during his reign the lack of contact and sympathy between ruler and people , already growing during the last two decades of the life of Louis XV , became more marked . |
| 13 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 14 | I suggest the patient takes it on waking for the first two or three days and then experiments either with increasing the amount or by introducing an extra dose in the afternoon or evening . |
| 15 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 16 | This was important to her as she was self-supporting and had found it tough going in the last two years . |
| 17 | Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 . |
| 18 | THE TREATMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE , LEARNING AND TEACHING DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF A NEW BACHELOR OF EDUCATION DEGREE . |
| 19 | In general , language teaching during the first two years is in small groups with grammar classes , oral classes ( with a native speaker ) and classes devoted to the written language . |
| 20 | Michelin is axing 16,000 jobs and has spent £460m on restructuring in the last two years . |
| 21 | Huge there 's been huge drug busting over the last two years . |
| 22 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 23 | The numbers getting over the last two hurdles can probably be found by a later survey , but the time involved is such that this will surely be a separate activity . |
| 24 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 25 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 26 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley . |
| 27 | The English Tourist Board forecast is for 10 per cent growth in conference spending over the next two years . |
| 28 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 29 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 30 | My opinion is that , as long as Willsford is among the leaders coming to the last two fences and six furlongs , his speed will be a potent weapon , especially as he carries the minimum weight . |