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

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1 In two cases where father and son were both working shifts they had arranged alternate shifts thus allowing uninterrupted farm work .
2 From the above discussion , two cases where improvement is needed have been identified :
3 Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ?
4 Two hours later Ace walked in with an expression on his face that had her standing up , her face turning scarlet with mortification .
5 A MAN in his seventies died and another was badly hurt in a crash which blocked a busy Yorkshire coast road for two hours yesterday morning .
6 There are two reasons why element R might be favoured , one immediate and one long-term .
7 There are two reasons why society might consider that the social cost of a capital good is less than its private cost .
8 Nevertheless , there are two reasons why society may wish to use a lower discount rate in public sector investment projects , thus requiring them to earn a lower rate of return than in private industry .
9 Two months ago Amnesty submitted testimony to the UN which noted that the de Klerk government ‘ was failing to take adequate steps to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces implicated in the torture and killing of government opponents ’ .
10 Two months later spring had opened into full-blown summer .
11 Bevan resuscitated the suggestion in his report of July 1808 to the committee of the Grand Union , and two months later notice was given that an Act of Parliament would be sought for powers to build a canal southwards from Foxton .
12 To add to Darlington 's problems , centre Steve Ellis was injured in the second half and club skipper Mark Layfield was called into action for the first time in two months following injury .
13 There were two cars out front , a new Cad. and a foreign sports model which I made Italian .
14 In two areas where unemployment was particularly high the farm , even though providing little or no financial return , was seen as an important factor in keeping the male school leavers occupied thereby fulfilling an important social function .
15 The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole .
16 Just over two weeks later war broke out , and the happy mood of Paris changed to one of agitation and anger .
17 Two years ago Siu-ming left her job as a solicitor in Bath to work for the women 's workshop and train as a cabinetmaker at Brunel Technical College , on block release .
18 Two years ago Team Lotus looked as though it was about to disappear .
19 I mean you said two years later change .
20 Two years later Raft blew his top at Peter Lorre during a scene in Background to Danger in which Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet tie Raft up .
21 Two years later Pharaoh himself has a dream which defeats his magicians and wise men , despite all their training and a whole library of reference books .
22 And then after about two years when Father le realized that the lace trade was going he said , must to put to a trade .
23 FOR over two years now Technology Branch Services ( now part of the Customer Service Management team ) have been surveying a small number of branches each month to get input from staff on their perception of the levels of service on the 4700 Back Office system .
24 Like good driving , organisation is conducted in two phases namely planning and implementation .
25 ( This still leaves two days where lunch can be finished by either a biscuit or two squares of chocolate . )
26 After two days reluctantly fishing in Wexford Harbour , on the estuary of the River Slaney , the flotilla sneaked out to the Saltees Island as the winds dropped .
27 Patients should be made aware that the side-effects can usually be reserved within one to two days following cessation of the infusion .
28 It was not quite an oration because two days earlier speech had been phased out because it was discovered to be the ‘ root of all evil ’ , by somebody who never talked and was consequently the most unevil person in the world .
29 I went , I had to tell a lady that her husband had died er about two Christmases ago , two days before Christmas .
30 When we were children , about two days before Christmas , my mother used to face us all defiantly , and say your Aunty May 's coming for Christmas , and we all used to scream no , no , not Aunty May please .
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