Example sentences of "in two [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In two minutes we had created the excitement , fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon . |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay . |
| 4 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 5 | In two experiments we recorded the sexual response of male and female auklets to realistic opposite-sex models with crest ornaments experimentally shortened and lengthened within the range of natural variation . |
| 6 | In two weeks he transmitted an answer to the Royal Society in a paper that is often cited as a prime example of the scientific method . |
| 7 | Do that in two weeks I think we will be happy . |
| 8 | In two years we went from a £32m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £150m , to a £14m loss . |
| 9 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 10 | In two years he hopes to complete his work , which could become a model for future generations to save the rainforests for centuries to come . |
| 11 | By 1974 , when he finished Music in Twelve Parts , Glass 's ideas had crystallized in two techniques he calls ‘ additive process ’ and ‘ cyclic structure ’ . |
| 12 | Does match in two colours I do n't really match but this |
| 13 | In two months he spoke only 26 sentences to his lonely wife Susanne . |
| 14 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 15 | In two days they climbed the two remaining plumb lines , the magnificent Centurion and The Shield . |
| 16 | In two days we get everything we want and for the rest of the week he has his Christian customers . |
| 17 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 18 | and it would appear in the simple times , before mine , even I had experience at Newark , that men could get a sub in the week because you 're actually in two days you 've actually earnt two days money and you have n't got it . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's twice in two days you 've had fuel problems , ’ Ashley observed . |
| 20 | In two days he had made birdies at only the 15th twice and the second once . |
| 21 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 22 | In two steps she had reached the slop bucket , dropped the packet in , watched it splash on the cobbles and turned round as a voice rang out in the yard . |