Example sentences of "two [noun pl] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In memory of the ten million , or so , men who died in that war , it became the practice for everyone and everything , to stop still and be silent for two minutes at that hour , on that date every year thereafter . |
| 2 | An examination must be made of such pegs and bolts for signs of corrosion , and there should always be at least two anchors at each stance . |
| 3 | Katharine Hamnett is a contradictory , impulsive figure : a feminist who sells on sex , a vegetarian hedonist , a Labour voter with two sons at private school and a £20m turnover . |
| 4 | The police argued that they had reasonably apprehended that a breach of the peace might occur if there had been more than two pickets at each entrance . |
| 5 | The officer told the defendant three times that he considered two pickets at each entrance were sufficient but the defendant , persisting in his intention to join the pickets , ‘ pushed gently past ’ the police officer , ‘ was gently arrested ’ , and was charged with obstructing the police in execution of their duty . |
| 6 | Since in the example the memory bank is composed of one bit-plane , the resulting image shown on the TV monitor can have one of only two values at each pixel point : the value 0 ( meaning ‘ black ’ ) and the value 1 ( meaning ‘ white ’ ) . |
| 7 | Fermanagh trailed by two goals at three quarter time but levelled the game again to 12–12 to take them into extra time , and stole the extra goal needed for victory on the whistle winning 16–15 to give them the trophy for the second year . |
| 8 | The object was to examine the effect of view angle on discrimination between the two subjects at two angles of ( solar ) illumination . |
| 9 | In existence since 1983 , there are two shops at 34–36 Watling Avenue , Burnt Oak and 106 High Street , Walthamstow . |
| 10 | Under the large west window was a raised platform reached by two steps at each side of the pulpit-desk which was placed in the centre . |
| 11 | And did you see Ewan Beg take off the two heads at one stroke ? |
| 12 | It 's got to involve two cars at some time |
| 13 | two tutors at one time |
| 14 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 15 | Yet in spite of a considerable erosion problem , there exists no conservation service as such , with only two ecologists at central level who are supposed to give adequate guidance for land use at the national level . |
| 16 | Two companies at Long Beach were hired to do the actual airframe modifications . |
| 17 | None of the Japanese firms is anywhere near its goal ; they make only one or two models at each plant , which is too few . |
| 18 | It is , of course , Elbrus , a huge dormant volcano with two summits at 5642 metres ( 18,510ft ) and 5621m , the Western top being more than 800 metres higher than that of Mont Blanc . |
| 19 | The two crosses at either end of the roof gave her a brief moment of hope . |
| 20 | A huge , makeshift scaffold had been erected in front of the palace , a long , thick ashen pole fixed into two uprights at either end . |
| 21 | The well , EMK-1 [ LASMO 25 per cent ] , tested oil and gas from two zones at combined rates up to 3,729 bopd plus 17.3 mmcfd . |
| 22 | Ross , who scored with a penalty against spirited Otago in what was a very subdued Canadian effort , also contributed a penalty and the conversion to one of two tries at close quarters by no.8 Ian Gordon against North Auckland in Whangarei . |
| 23 | The egg is infective on the ground in about two weeks at optimal temperatures . |
| 24 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 25 | There are two classes at each stage in Primaries 1 – 3 . |
| 26 | The cone can be sliced lengthwise by two planes at right angles , offering a vertical-horizontal cross like a gunsight to the eye . |
| 27 | Moreover , as the two pairs of bonds define two planes at right angles to each other , one of the two b components is b 1 and the other b 2 , in the overall C 2v symmetry of the complex . |
| 28 | Motoring Which ? did its sums recently on comparable Peugeot 309s , suggesting that the diesel version would save £1,280 over two years at 12,000 miles a year . |
| 29 | After two years at this school , he left to study at the School of Art in South Kensington , where he won many prizes . |
| 30 | I only remained two years at this school . |