Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But during the two years between the time when the book was first mooted and its publication in 1982 , the company had transformed itself and the book did not reflect the grander style of living which Laura was now espousing . |
| 2 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 3 | But of the two jubilees it is the one that gives us more to ponder . |
| 4 | I wo n't go into details , but with the two letters at their disposal , plus a couple of other bits of evidence , the forensic people had a field-day . |
| 5 | But in the two decades since this mindless butchery no one has been made to answer for a crime which sent shockwaves far beyond the shores of Ulster . |
| 6 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 7 | But on the two matters on which his own personal obedience was required there was no room for compromise . |
| 8 | The only time that Gooch performed well for Gower was in the 1985 Ashes series , when England won 3–1 and David had his finest hour , but on the two occasions when Gooch 's help was most desperately needed — against West Indies in 1985–86 and Australia in 1989 — Gooch 's total contribution was 459 runs at 24.16 . |
| 9 | He was in part correct. , But on the two occasions they had met , the president had given the Shah reason to believe he valued him , Those meetings are cameos of the perplexities of international relations , and they help explain the Shahs won confusion . |
| 10 | Brigade officers said that but for the two men 's prompt action the woman almost certainly would have died . |