Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 2 | More than 200 pages later Genet writes ‘ out of the crowd a glance swifter than a wink reveals two fedayeen as two lovers … |
| 3 | If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election . |
| 4 | If a girl had two parents still at home , she had to get written permission from both of them before performing . |
| 5 | 1 If a word has two completely different meanings or uses , then they are printed separately and numbered . |
| 6 | If a party wins two constituency seats , but on the overall vote should have five , three candidates are taken off the list . |
| 7 | At present Statutory Maternity Leave is available in the UK only if a woman has two or more years of continuous service with her employer ( see also below ) . |
| 8 | This is explained by A being ‘ dominant ’ to a : if an organism contains two genes , one dominant to the other , then it develops the character controlled by the dominant gene . |
| 9 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 10 | The atrocity had been a " deliberate retaliatory attack " after a landmine killed two soldiers ; there was no evidence to support claims by army officers that those who died were " caught in crossfire " during an exchange of fire with LTTE guerrillas . |
| 11 | The Anaglypta range includes borders in both vinyl and ‘ Original ’ types , which can be used under a cornice or picture rail , as a dado to divide two different papers , above a skirting and around a doorframe to ‘ frame ’ a wall , or around a window . |
| 12 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 13 | When a mouse has two t genes it either dies young or is sterile . |