Example sentences of "two [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two minutes the great galley , packed with every fighting man left in Duart , was heading out of the bay . |
| 2 | Within two minutes the automatic aerial was retracted and the Volkswagen drove off . |
| 3 | Some of Boscawen 's ships lacked sails , none was immediately ready for sea , and many of the crews and officers were ashore , including Boscawen himself , but the moment the message arrived the admiral leapt from his chair , leaving his dinner unfinished , and within an unprecedented two hours the first ships were weighing anchor . |
| 4 | In less than two hours the first shot would be hit — and the first tales of glory or misery or ‘ if only ’ would be told . |
| 5 | But after about two hours the excess amount of insulin in the blood tends to have an effect which is n't at all helpful to the person seeking to control hunger and food intake . |
| 6 | For the next two hours the literary lunchers surged around Hannah and virtually ignored the ostensible star of the show , who had been obliged to immediately follow Hannah and had fallen flat . |
| 7 | Of the two groups the former are more biassed towards persuasive selling , whilst the latter tend to be order-takers . |
| 8 | Right , think of think of it with the brackets on , two times the whole compound , and the |
| 9 | In the course of the previous two generations the junior branch of the Nevilles , Warwick and his father Salisbury , had established an important northern affinity within the three lordships . |
| 10 | In the course of the previous two generations the junior branch of the Nevilles , Warwick and his father Salisbury , had established an important northern affinity within the three lordships . |
| 11 | Mr Butler told the hearing at Berwick-upon-Tweed that after two rehearsals the main jump went ahead over Brunton Airfield , Northumberland . |
| 12 | Between those two performances the staunch Royalist Davenant ventured on the production of musical ‘ entertainments ’ in a private house ( Rutland House , Aldersgate Street ) before a small paying audience : The First Dayes Entertainment … by Declamations and Musick ( 21 May 1656 ) , with costumes but no real action , the music by Henry Lawes , Charles Coleman ( d. c. 1664 ) , Henry Cooke ( c. 1616–1672 ) , and the violinist George Hudson , and in August of the same year The Siege of Rhodes , with music by the same composers together with Locke . |
| 13 | Leapor 's death preceded by only two months the first appearances of her work in print . |
| 14 | For two months the New Leader was filled with the controversy . |
| 15 | The garage charges six pounds a day for storage … and after nearly two months the total bill is four hundred and eighty nine pounds . |
| 16 | So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day . |
| 17 | The instructions were to agree one answer to this question ‘ Are these two bricks the same size , or is one of them bigger than the other ? ’ |
| 18 | Since partial interpretations did not have to be kept distinct over stretches longer than two words the combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses should have been considerably reduced . |
| 19 | She hoped the police would give the two journalists the hard time they deserved . |
| 20 | Thus for these two parties the total difference between PV and PS was 8.3 percentage points . |
| 21 | In further indications of increasing openness , Tirana radio on Nov. 23 , 1989 , reported the crash of two helicopters the previous day which had killed 23 people ; incidents of this kind had hitherto not been reported in the Albanian media . |
| 22 | Whether it was because she knew she was my baby and did not like being with ward Sister , I shall not know , but she only gained two ounces the first week . |
| 23 | But in one or two areas the corporate development is not wholly related to these . |
| 24 | Over the past two decades the resident population in Scottish mental hospitals fell by 20% but the proportion of residents aged 65 or over rose from 45% in 1970 to 66% by 1988 . |
| 25 | In the last two decades the British economy has suffered from high unemployment , and until recently , high inflation and low productivity growth . |
| 26 | The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated . |
| 27 | A $600,000,000 trade agreement was signed by the two countries the previous month during a visit to Tehran by China 's Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade , Zheng Tuobin . |
| 28 | I just got two two bottles the last time I was in , I ca n't . |
| 29 | After two weeks the general health of the patient improved , and her blood values were : haemoglobin 145 g/L , mean corpuscular volume 88 m , white blood cells 4.510/L ( 64% neutrophils , 1% basophil , 3% eosinophils , 32% lymphocytes ) , and platelets 23910/L . |
| 30 | It is also clear that in the last two weeks the whole country , as it heard different voices and different noises , has wondered who is speaking for the Labour party . |