Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 It was nearly two hours yet to the start of the party , he 'd have plenty of time .
2 We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded .
3 On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort .
4 With difficulty Li Yuan brought the Arab 's head round and moved the stubborn beast two paces closer to the watching T'ang .
5 She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell .
6 Yes the there are two aspects really to that , one is the length of runway operating er and the other is the surface , erm , if I could take the first one .
7 From within the arena of armchairs and sofa he had been mirroring her progress about the room , two steps forward to the drinks trolley where she placed her glass , four steps to her eight over to the window , three back on her way to the door again .
8 Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces .
9 Each committee 's membership is allocated between the two parties proportionally to their membership of the full house so that , for example , if the Democrats have 60 per cent of the Senate seats they will get approximately 60 per cent of each committee 's seats .
10 More importantly , it has brought the two companies close to the brink of financial disaster .
11 The principal accused are Alain Boublil , charged with giving the key tip-off when he was Beregovoy 's personal chief-of-staff at the finance ministry , and two businessmen close to the ruling Socialist Party , Samir Traboulsi and Max Theret .
12 ‘ Only two weeks now to the mistress 's confinement , ’ Mrs Peterson reminded her .
13 I grab the two pieces closest to my foot .
14 Tomorrow Gooch is due to bequeath the bat with which he made 333 against India in the Test here two years ago to the Lord 's museum .
15 At the time of writing , the church has grown from sixteen adults two years ago to a regular attendance of over 100 .
16 Average annual earnings have risen from £15,686 two years ago to about £18,000 today — the best ratio of earnings to house prices since the early Eighties , the Halifax Building Society claims .
17 So Batty really has gone up in the world — from 4–3 against the ( old , great ) Liverpool at Elland Road two years ago to a 4–3 thriller against a club ninth in the fourth division .
18 The damages were awarded two years ago to Lord Aldington , who Count Tolstoy had alleged was indirectly involved in the death of thousands of Cossacks during the second world war .
19 The unemployed fan is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south London two years ago to be closer to Helena , whose films include Lady Jane and Room With A View .
20 It had fought aggressively to diversify away from its mining mainstay into new oil and gas-related markets and had reduced its mining dependency from 80 per cent of turnover two years ago to 30 per cent .
21 I went , I went there about two years ago to Walkers Crisps and , that 's just next door to er .
22 In 1954 Eyre became senior English master at Bromsgrove before moving two years later to the schools ' drama department at the BBC .
23 In 1759 , while Smart was confined , his family moved to Dublin , although his wife returned two years later to Reading , they were never reunited .
24 Two years later to Somerset where I learnt that the great advantage of being an in-house solicitor is that you can help your clients , the social workers , planners , and teachers to get their procedures and attitudes right before cases come to court or committee .
25 In 1971 Michael ( two years later to be Sir Michael ) Clapham succeeded Lord Kings Norton as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr was appointed to take over from Frank Hornby in 1972 .
26 The first two years of education were to be the academic years , and there were proposals for these two years also to be seen as discrete and eligible for a Diploma of Higher Education .
27 At any rate , he was in Denmark early in 1023 , making terms with Thorkell , whose position there had strengthened since his expulsion from England two years earlier to the extent that Cnut left it in his care and exchanged sons with him .
28 ’ I snarled but the landlord , the two thugs close to his shoulder , screamed his innocence .
29 Place two fingers in the two holes directly to the left of the finger stop .
30 So they only had two hours further on to go from The Two Mills then to Hollyhead basically .
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