Example sentences of "two [noun] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century .
2 Two minutes later the crew again indicated that they were very short on fuel and requested a short approach .
3 Two minutes later the door swung open and everyone prepared to sally forth .
4 Two minutes later the Armstrong entered the tiny village of Ham .
5 Two minutes later the office shed was empty of nomes .
6 Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew .
7 That many were arrested in San Francisco in two hours when the violence threatened to spread there .
8 Two hours later the order was given to cut down the masts .
9 Two hours later the men were speaking again .
10 Two generations later the population had trebled and the pall of industrial smoke had become permanent .
11 Squash at Harlow Sportcentre has moved from strength to strength , starting with just two courts when the centre first opened .
12 There are two acts here the creation of a community , a body politic , by the social contract and then that community establishes a government as a separate act and I shall emphasise the significance of that shortly .
13 Grandmother Annie May Morgan , 61 , was standing at the junction of two roads when the accident happened .
14 Mr Bradfield 's arguments reflect the two reasons why the ASB has moved away from SSAP 6 .
15 Mohamed Mili , ITU secretary general until the end of 1982 , thinks there are two reasons why the West should help .
16 There are two reasons why the habit spread faster among the younger macaques .
17 Two months ago the company was confident that sponsorships would be in place by Christmas .
18 Two months ago the government ordered the removal of all red stars from public buildings .
19 Nearly two months later the patient complained of itching and cholestasis was diagnosed .
20 The unprecedented judgment was then published in the All England Law Reports but two months later the grant of letters was ruled void by another judge .
21 Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ .
22 He organised a meeting of some of the more militant people who had attended the NICRA meeting and about two months later the DHAC was launched .
23 Two months later the truth was out .
24 Two months later the IRA launched a bomb and shooting attack on RAF servicemen in the Netherlands , killing three .
25 In June and July , the two months following the decision to make visitors to the Boboli Gardens pay at the gate , a total of 88,000 tickets were sold for a revenue of L364 million ( £173,300 ; $346,700 ) .
26 If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority .
27 He had taken two steps when the guns stopped .
28 So I borrowed two pound out the bag , I 've got plenty of money in the bag but I do n't know we .
29 With a lot of effort she finally managed to close the left-hand door and bolt it into place , then pushed the arm against the dead man 's chest and forced the other door over , sliding the remains of a file through two loops where the handles had once been to keep it shut .
30 The Malaysian state of Sabah and Papua New Guinea are two areas where the practice is common , the report says .
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