Example sentences of "and on two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 28th alone , three were burning between Cluther Rocks and Red Brook on Kinder , and on two areas of Bleaklow , around Alport and Torside Clough . |
| 2 | Test drilling was also planned in Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire , Somerset and on two sites in the Cheviot Hills , nearly always ( to try to avoid objection ) using publicly owned land . |
| 3 | Ernest Saunders , the former chairman of the brewing and distilling company Guinness plc , had been convicted on Aug. 27 on two charges of conspiring to contravene the 1958 Prevention of Fraud ( Investments ) Act , on eight charges of false accounting and on two charges of theft , and was sentenced on Aug. 28 to two concurrent terms of five years and 3@1\2 years respectively . |
| 4 | Lozanov attacks the problem of " anti-suggestive " barriers , which may interfere with learning in two directions and on two planes . |
| 5 | ‘ And on two evenings I have tickets for La Scala , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Behind , and on two sides , she was protected from cold and poison gas by the leaves of a high screen decorated with scraps by a hand long since dead . |
| 7 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 8 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |
| 9 | Sometimes there 's bluster , other times overstatement creeps in , and on two occasions ham-fistedness drops its calling card ( concept instrumentals like ‘ Necropolis ’ , for instance ) . |
| 10 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 11 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 12 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike . |