Example sentences of "they are [v-ing] [prep] two " in BNC.

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1 Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate .
2 I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business .
3 And for an English/French speaker , adoption of bird for a short time precluded oiseau Once such children realize they are dealing with two languages , however , they begin to use labels from both languages for the same category , both leche and milk They start to do this once they themselves can produce about 150–200 words ( Taeschner , 1983 ) .
4 New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . )
5 Yeah , yeah bu yeah , but they are rehearsing for two and a half hours .
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