Example sentences of "two [conj] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned . |
| 2 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 3 | Purchased by David Thompson , of the Cheveley Park Stud , for a reported £80,000 , Party Politics shook off a catalogue of breathing problems and one case of breaking blood vessels to take the world 's most famous steeplechase by two and a half lengths . |
| 4 | Mohammed Moubarak 's gelding was always travelling smoothly and quickened in fine style to beat today 's opponent Eastleigh by two and a half lengths . |
| 5 | Central City and Culture Vulture dead-heated for third , a further two and a half lengths away but neither looked like troubling Musicale . |
| 6 | The 2,000 Guineas , Derby — where he beat Gyr by two and a half lengths — Irish Derby , King George and the St Leger all fell to Charles Engelhard 's colt . |
| 7 | Irish Memory finished two and a half lengths away third — a cracking good run considering he was responsible , with Bold Pursuit , for the fast early gallop which produced a race time only 0.09sec slower than standard . |
| 8 | THE French-trained Enjoy Plan blew his opportunity to beaten two and a half lengths , by Sin Kiang in the Group Three Prix La Force at Longchamp yesterday . |
| 9 | The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies . |
| 10 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 11 | The race was won by Hywel Davies ' mount Gallant Effort , a two and a half lengths winner from Alton Bay . |
| 12 | Duration of meaningful contact , two and a half minutes , fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | The question is whether it is worth while to make an alteration by which you will gain at most two and a half minutes … |
| 14 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 15 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 16 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 18 | A melodramatic , almost operatic , intro slides into an average Morrissey-Marr number that is two and a half minutes long and a ton too light . |
| 19 | So I suppose that was about two and a half minutes was n't it ? |
| 20 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 21 | Two and a half minutes later … it all happens … |
| 22 | Their maximum lead was two and a half minutes and on the descent of Blackstone Edge Rice broke a spoke and had a wheel change as the Dutchman eased until they were together again . |
| 23 | or they 've got relations that are , er two and a half minutes . |
| 24 | What minute now it 's two and a half minutes . |
| 25 | I 've already told you two and a half minutes . |
| 26 | It 's two and a half minutes to six o'clock . |
| 27 | Two and a half minutes since the wicket gone . |
| 28 | But that would be two and a half minutes each , roughly . |
| 29 | Their first answer has lasted two and a half minutes . |
| 30 | We 're looking at two , two and a half minutes . |