Example sentences of "in two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a group of parcels going in two loads it 's two |
| 2 | The sad thing was , as I said before , his navigator was incapable — and I must say not good enough — to get him round the heavily defended areas , and so in two sorties he still sustained abnormal flak damage . |
| 3 | It is highly unlikely that any of the Pacific fish used in these tests had ever encountered a sea snake previously and in two instances they certainly could not have done so . |
| 4 | He went upstairs with his wife , and in two minutes they were asleep . |
| 5 | The caption read : ‘ The sign the young provocateurs agreed upon — in two minutes we shall start the attack . ’ |
| 6 | In two minutes we had created the excitement , fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon . |
| 7 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 8 | ‘ In two minutes I 'm going back to the car , ’ I keep muttering . |
| 9 | well you sit there then , I 'll come back in two minutes I , I ca n't hear what Richard and James are doing |
| 10 | In two cases it 's very much a specific one off application , |
| 11 | ‘ In two hours we are at Pot'ma Transit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In two seconds you 'd be wanting me back for something . " |
| 17 | In two weeks they were all vandalized . |
| 18 | In two weeks it 'd be Christmas . |
| 19 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ In two weeks I shall be taking you and Corrie Palmer on the train to London . |
| 22 | In two weeks I shall be speaking to the people who worked for me and campaigned and raised money when I thought I was as good as dead and buried . |
| 23 | Do that in two weeks I think we will be happy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like . |
| 26 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 27 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 28 | In two years it could well be down to single figures . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |