Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 2 | But she knew that Chinese Charlie would clean and press a garment to make it look almost new and she could get as much as two shillings for a good overcoat or a suit . |
| 3 | The facts were that Chetnik constructed two warehouses under a consent granted under the London Buildings Acts 1930–1939 , the consent being subject to a condition that the buildings should not be occupied until the consent of Tower Hamlets had been obtained to the proposed user . |
| 4 | It eliminates the possibility of inconsistencies arising between what is done and what is recorded — with all the subsequent difficulties this causes -by the simple device of reducing the two activities to a single operation through the provision of integrated letter writing . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I 'm a flibbertigibbet Gemini , unable to settle to any one thing for longer than two minutes at a time , ’ Candy returned comfortably , ‘ whereas you , my darling Rory , are a luxury-loving Leo . ’ |
| 6 | That she 'd lost the ability to concentrate on anything longer than two minutes at a time ? |
| 7 | They had taken the lead after two minutes with a simple move that found the Oxford defence in disarray . |
| 8 | Jed had led 8-5 at the turn , with Gregor McKechnie having set the scoreboard in motion after only two minutes with a penalty and Melrose responding after a period of sustained pressure from the home side , through a try by Gary Parker whose turn of speed caused problems for the Jed defence . |
| 9 | It takes just two minutes for a burglar to turn a home into a nightmare — in the city of Gloucester police are being called up to twelve times a day by families finding scenes like these . |
| 10 | we can find the train 's average speed like this change forty two minutes to a decimal of an hour what 's that ? |
| 11 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 12 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 13 | It is important to hold the stretches for two minutes in a position of mild tension , not pain . |
| 14 | I can live with my fish house , though those not used to it can find it oppressive , but after about two minutes in a space-heated one I start to wilt visibly . |
| 15 | In the proofs below characterizing the sequential equilibrium of the reputation game these two separate possibilities will feature as the two cases of a proposition . |
| 16 | The first two cases in a crackdown on Sunday traders have gone before magistrates . |
| 17 | He 's not sleeping for more than two hours at a time at the moment . |
| 18 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 19 | They separated at the corner of Friday and Fish Streets , agreeing to meet within two hours at a tavern outside Aldgate on the Mile End Road . |
| 20 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 21 | he says , in the case of Ian the number of occasions where Ian has worked two hours on a Friday morning and then he 's worked Friday Saturday as overtime . |
| 22 | The Princess Royal spent two hours on a tour of the Merchiston and Craiglockhart campuses and met staff and students from the gamut of the Napier community . |
| 23 | I go , two hours on a Monday |
| 24 | Two hours on a Tuesday , one on a Wednesday and one on a Friday . |
| 25 | Southern Region general manager Gordon Pettitt took a calculated gamble when he authorised a charity high-speed run to Weymouth on 14 April , when the special train completed the 142½ mile trip to Weymouth in seconds within two hours with a maximum speed of 109mph . |
| 26 | Set up a biological filter and circulate your pondwater through it about once every two hours with a suitable pump . |
| 27 | It has been well received and customers are having to wait two hours for a table on Saturday evenings . |
| 28 | As thousands of bargain hunters queued up to two hours for a sale of stock damaged by a fire at Dickens and Jones in Milton Keynes , the store announced it 's to halt the sale of animal furs . |
| 29 | All of the actors , especially Hoffman , are nothing more than stooges to Peckinpah 's notions of perversity , degradation , and dung heap characterisation … this putrid , wholly offensive and nauseating snotball of a film … two hours of a running sewer disgorging human waste … |
| 30 | Usually evidence of about two hours of a dry nappy indicates that the child has the capacity to retain urine in the bladder . |