Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tillie won the day , dues were reduced to one shilling for English ships , two shillings for foreigners . |
| 2 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 3 | Of particular interest in this regard are the various UNCITRAL Legal Guides and two projects on principles of contract law undertaken by Unidroit and the Commission on European Contract Law respectively . |
| 4 | These two tendencies for electrons and ions to move away from Jupiter are opposed by the Jovian dipole field , which tends to contain the electrons and ions . |
| 5 | Two coups for arts festival The recession has not affected the calibre of the 1993 Perth festival programme , says Mary Miller |
| 6 | According to the report , if BBC TV took just two minutes of commercials per hour , it could earn £334 million by the end of the decade . |
| 7 | She had packed two cases with clothes , towels and essentials . |
| 8 | It followed two cases of toddlers being snatched to safety after alarms caught fire . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 10 | I work out with weights for two hours on Saturdays . |
| 11 | The papingo shoot lasts for two hours with contestants shooting in rotation and taking as many shots each as the time limit allows . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister , with Mr Shevardnadze at her side , declared herself well satisfied with the two hours of talks . |
| 13 | President Joaquim Chissano , making his first official visit to the United States , met President George Bush on March 13 for two hours of talks , in what was seen as marking an improvement in relations between the two countries . |
| 14 | Baker issued his surprise announcement in Paris after two hours of talks with his Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze , both of them being in France to attend talks on German unity . |
| 15 | On Nov. 12 a PNSF delegation held two hours of talks with a Syrian Vice-President , Abdel Kalim Khaddam . |
| 16 | The UK Prime Minister , John Major , held two hours of talks at Downing Street in London on Feb. 11 with the leaders of the four main constitutional parties — the Official Ulster Unionist Party ( OUP ) , the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) , the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) and the Alliance Party . |
| 17 | They left after less than two hours of talks to report back to Saddam Hussein on the face of it having agreed to all allied demands . |
| 18 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 19 | There followed two hours of arguments between protestors over what they should accept as sufficient for leaving . |
| 20 | I was dropping with fatigue — mainly because I could not sleep , even for two hours between treatments . |
| 21 | Garages fire : A caravan and car were badly damaged when fire broke out in two garages on allotments at Sherburn village , Durham , yesterday . |
| 22 | Please find enclosed two copies of drawings Nos EL 1213/180 and 181 , highlighted to show possible areas for a proposed pumping station at Fidra Road , North Berwick and the associated pipeline route to West Beach . |
| 23 | The supplier should be requested : ( a ) To supply two copies of invoices . |
| 24 | The man who was owed the money planned to take her two sons as slaves . |
| 25 | Mime ( in Les Misérables ) , a big leading role ( Professor Higgins ) , a virtuoso turn ( as an American businessman in Youth At The Helm , he had impressed everyone by talking into five telephones at once — everybody in Taibach talked about it : Cis heard accounts ‘ up and down the street ’ ) , work on the radio and , above all , those scrupulous sessions in Ma Smith 's front room and on the high hills , schoolteacher and pupil , two sons of miners in Wales , striving to speak the language of Shakespeare faultlessly . |
| 26 | Typically , these painfully created cameras take two sons of pictures : there are the pictures which seek a harsh exposure of the evils of the present , and there are the pictures which depict the calm , blue skies of a perfect future . |
| 27 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |
| 28 | There are at least two groups of pavements which show more specific similarities than were considered as " sequential " ( above ) . |
| 29 | In considering the issue of entitlement to access , my college would be required to look at two groups of learners hitherto excluded — students with profound or multiple disabilities and students with challenging behaviour . |
| 30 | The two groups of businessmen and community leaders filled with air with continuing discussion on how best to provide support and resources for such estates . |