Example sentences of "two [noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) need to be completely phased out because of their contribution to the greenhouse effect , say two researchers at the University of Munster , Germany . |
| 2 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 3 | It would have two minutes at the end ! |
| 4 | Issues that should take at least an hour of discussion with colleagues , as well as with the pupil concerned , have to be dealt with in two minutes at the staffroom door during break . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below the permitted hours in those premises in the evening shall be increased by the addition of two hours at the end thereof . |
| 6 | It was typical of his thorough approach that after Arsenal won 7–1 at Wolverhampton , he spent nearly two hours at the team talk analysing what led up to Wolves ’ one goal , much to the dismay of the players , who expected only a brief meeting after such a handsome win . |
| 7 | After almost two hours at the wheel yesterday , Senna limped away from his car , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brake trouble during the last quarter of the 73-lap race . |
| 8 | In Piddington v. Bates the power was employed to enable the police to station no more than two pickets at the entrance to a factory . |
| 9 | The company will present seven performances five evenings and two matinees at the town 's Epic Leisure Centre from October 4 . |
| 10 | Two lecturers at the University of Swansea are lecturing in a local pub . |
| 11 | Attitudes as well as writing skills will be compared in the two groups at the beginning and end of a 12 week experimental teaching period . |
| 12 | Evergreen are spinning two yarns at the moment : . |
| 13 | Talbot Square in 1962 , with trams of two generations at the loading island . |
| 14 | Gladstone Murray was a round-faced balding man whose spectacles often slipped down his nose ; he had a greying moustache and he invariably carried his drinking glass between two fingers at the top of the glass . |
| 15 | Uninvited , she positioned two fingers at the entrance of his arsehole , and crudely thrust into him . |
| 16 | Here we can see the paired jointed legs that are attached to each body segment , the feathery gill on a stalk alongside each leg , two feelers at the front of the head , the gut running the entire length of the body , even the muscle fibres along the back which enabled the animal to roll itself up into a ball . |
| 17 | He had already drafted two acts at the beginning of the previous year , and even before he had been taken ill this autumn he had begun the work of revising them . |
| 18 | band A , B or C in three subjects at the Higher grade , together with either band A , B or C in two subjects at the Standard grade&sup4 ; or grades 1 , 2 or 3 in two subjects at the Ordinary grade&sup4 ; . |
| 19 | H 2 blockers ( ranitidine 150 mg or cimetidine 400 mg twice daily ) were given orally to every patient for at least two months at the outpatient department . |
| 20 | ‘ I always intended to go back after my two months at the shop were up . ’ |
| 21 | Now that we have the car we hope to make one or two trips at the weekend . |
| 22 | so she said what I 'll do she said is I 'll leave the key to the garage under two bricks at the side of the garage |
| 23 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 24 | If you have anything to offer please make contact at the two addresses at the end of this newsletter . |
| 25 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 26 | His two secretaries at the Board became the Under Secretaries , and in many respects the new Office was similar in organization to Offices of the other Secretaries of State . |
| 27 | spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go |
| 28 | I had achieved the remarkable feat of uniting the two factions at the party in mockery of me . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ She had a cabinet with two cupboards at the bottom . |
| 30 | The walnut writing table has nine drawers in front and two cupboards at the back . |