Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | X times two hours has got to be equal |
| 2 | In the 1990s , we approach a new world in which the old cold war of the two super-powers has given way to three emerging super-power economic blocs : North America , South-East Asia and Europe . |
| 3 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 4 | As one of the two cops comes to lean into my window , the white van overtakes and glides on by . |
| 5 | Demonstrating that the 3D turnaround time can be reduced to two months has given the Vietnam team confidence , Nunn says , to use this method again on their second 3D survey in Vietnam over a prospect in Block 5–2 . |
| 6 | Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable . |
| 7 | The worst drought in the region for two centuries has claimed another victim … the badger . |
| 8 | Turning to the circuit shown in figure 11.6(a) , the Laplace transformation of Kirchhoff 's voltage law in the two meshes gives assuming that the capacitors are initially uncharged . |
| 9 | However , when and , the space-time appears to be regular for all , and the singularity caused by the mutual focusing of the two waves appears to have been removed . |
| 10 | However , this combination of the two signals does have one drawback ; it prevents pictures and sound from being erased and re-recorded separately during editing . |
| 11 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which either party received a proposal — submitted according to the first item [ ( a ) ] — without the two parties agreeing on appointing one arbitrator , the authority nominated by the two parties undertakes to appoint the arbitrator . |
| 12 | Although the overlap in personnel is less than many commentators might suppose , the presence of Ian Paisley is such that , despite his best efforts to keep his roles as Church and Party leader distinct , the simplifications of unionist politics into just two parties has left the Church firmly associated with the DUP . |
| 13 | He has competed in the Middle East Challenge events for several years and for over two decades has raced both cars and off road vehicles . |
| 14 | It would be ridiculous to claim that the resistance of the last two decades has achieved nothing , for on the contrary it has brought about significant , noticeable change . |
| 15 | Abundant research over the past two decades has indicated that the language employed by most adults when addressing babies and infants is , in fact , highly simplified and largely correct in terms of grammar . |
| 16 | The farming community 's increasing concentration on monocultures , particularly wheat , over the past two decades has contributed to the dramatic falls in the populations of a number of native British birds , according to a report by the Agriculture and Food Research Council . |
| 17 | It is in the international financial structure that change in the past two decades has proceeded fastest , away from nationally-centred credit systems toward a single system of integrated financial markets . |
| 18 | ( J Millar , 1989 ) Moreover , the growth in the numbers of one-parent families in the past two decades has occurred in most industrialised countries . |
| 19 | ‘ The split of Czechoslovakia into two countries has caused problems in some areas , but there is good co-operation between the two nuclear organisations and it is possible we will be asked to repeat the exercise in Slovakia . ’ |
| 20 | An Austrian commission of inquiry into the condition of a Czech reactor just inside the border between the two countries has found it to be in an extremely dangerous state . |
| 21 | Even within highly automated , and almost identical , sectors of the refining industry no process towards similarity or ‘ convergence ’ in managerial strategies in the two countries appears to have occurred . |
| 22 | THE LACK of snowfall in most European resorts over the last two winters has made all skiers aware of the advantages of artificial snow-making machinery . |
| 23 | Some Budweiser , nice one , get down this , comes back with two bottles says go and get another one , go get another , go on , once my dad starts going it 's fucking wonderful , he do n't stop buying it 's great stuff . |
| 24 | What usually happens is that , because the pressure to succeed has been removed , before that two weeks has elapsed the couple will find themselves overcome by the passion of the moment and a joyous and successful sexual encounter is likely to result . |
| 25 | If I again mention Mason 's Lighthouses — in its way a score of not dissimilar scope and fascination , written only a year later by a composer a generation younger — it 's because a comparison ( which Collins Classics has now made possible ) of these two pieces helps to highlight the individual nature of Birtwistle 's achievement . |
| 26 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 27 | Many of these have adopted as a major part of their strategy over the last two years campaigns to attract bidders for Channel 5 franchises to locate in their cities . |
| 28 | Within a time span of two years has emerged an extensive network of education business practitioners using a variety of backgrounds and experiences in a variety of operating conditions . |
| 29 | Of one thing I am certain : I am sure we all agree that what has emerged over the last two years has exceeded our expectations . |
| 30 | A MAN who claims his mail has not been delivered for over two years has received an apology from the Post Office after the discovery of over 400 letters at the home of a former postman . |