Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |
| 2 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |
| 3 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 4 | In 1835 she succumbed to a form of pre-senile dementia and for the last two decades of her life was confined to the house and terrace of Rydal Mount . |
| 5 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
| 6 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 7 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 8 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 9 | As a result the German frontier was broken , and for the next two years the provinces of Germany and Gaul were plundered by the invaders . |
| 10 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 11 | Lord ‘ Bertie ’ Denham , the bluff and genial Chief Whip who floated between the Lords , White 's and Pratt 's proffering a glass of whisky to any peer tempted to vote against a government bill , likes to maintain that there is no inbuilt Conservative majority in the Lords , and during the first two Thatcher terms the government did indeed lose 111 votes . |
| 12 | But neither the Ecclesiastical Courts nor the Common Law Courts are well adapted to settle the numerous conflicting rights of creditors , legatees , and next of kin ; trusts are often involved , and during the last two centuries the most effectual and usual method of asserting a claim to or against the estate of a deceased person is to get the estate administered in Chancery . |
| 13 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 14 | And during the last two centuries , especially when Britain had strong ties with India and the Indian sub-continent and the trade was flourishing on those routes . |
| 15 | But by the 26th , he was in ward in Dalkeith , and during the next two months was moved from there to Seton , and then to Blackness and St Andrews before finally being released on lo April . |
| 16 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 17 | Tonight , and during the next two Tuesday programmes , we are going to look at cultural links and influences . |
| 18 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 19 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 20 | Data were returned from the first fly-by and from the next two , on 21 September 1974 and 16 March 1975 . |
| 21 | From here anaspids , lampreys and perhaps some thelodonts developed a downturned asymmetrical tail ( hypocercal ) , and in the first two there were definite endoskeletal fin rays with , in at least lampreys , associated musculature . |
| 22 | This transmission , which can handle up to 221lb ft torque , is definitely the shape of things to come at Mercedes , and in the next two years it is likely that all six-cylinder Mercedes cars will be equipped with it . |
| 23 | The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end . |
| 24 | By January 1315 he was a knight of the royal household and in the next two years he received various grants of lands , wardships , and money . |
| 25 | In recent years political leaders in three of the countries considered in this book , Kenya , Nigeria and Tanzania have very suddenly announced fee-free , and in the last two cases , ‘ universal ’ primary education . |
| 26 | When you are playing regularly you can show your ability in the best light and in the last two games I 've done that . ’ |
| 27 | And in the last two years only three children under 14 have had to be placed in secure accommodation . |
| 28 | In the first instance the archaeological evidence is richly reinforced by written sources and modern usage and in the last two by the testimony of European explorers and colonists . |
| 29 | At last the lesson got home , and in the last two centuries before Christ , the Jewish people gave signal proof of their loyalty to the one God . |
| 30 | And in the last two years many up-and-coming bands have played at Darlington wine bars Perry 's and Harvey 's . |