Example sentences of "two [noun pl] ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl Aarvold , later a judge , scored two Lions ' tries and Doug Prentice , later secretary of the Rugby Union , converted them . |
| 2 | Chris Morris , one of the teachers involved , describes how the project was organised , how pupils responded and how the project altered the two groups ' conceptions of each other . |
| 3 | The monitoring and control issues marked a return to consensus in the two groups ' assessments of how matters stood . |
| 4 | Harley would , in this case , have been allowed to drop his ball two clubs ' lengths away from the fence , and would therefore have been able to get a full swing at the ball . |
| 5 | This may , however , turn out to be hokum and Saturday 's Stradey celebration probably provided an imperfect guide to the two clubs ' chances , other than to reveal that here at least there is no chance of capitulation . |
| 6 | We bought timber from a timber yard and went to another two builders ' merchants for some specialised bits . |
| 7 | The contrast between the two artists ' studios — one neat and methodical , the other more haphazard — pointed up the differences in their natures : Vaughan , cautious and stubborn ; Minton , flamboyant and easily derailed . |
| 8 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 9 | Mihir left a previous employer who owes him two months ' wages but , fearing deportation , can not complain to the authorities . |
| 10 | I had been paying the fees of the home a month in advance , but when explaining about the social security payments , I sent two months ' fees in advance to cover , as I thought , any delay . |
| 11 | Chemistry from a shopping basket was the title of two schools ' lectures given last November by Dr John Nicholson of the Centre for Science Education , UEA , to packed audiences of 12–14 year old pupils from Norfolk and Suffolk schools . |
| 12 | Conversation was difficult because she walked several yards behind Joe , and always crossed the street at least two cars ' lengths away . |
| 13 | By 1513 , the dispute had grown to such proportions that , before the Battle of Flodden , when James IV challenged the Earl of Surrey to single-handed combat to decide their two nations ' grievances , the rewards to the victor were to include the return of the town of Berwick to Scotland , and the removal of the Esk fish garth . |
| 14 | Haughey 's resignation came after the speaker of the Senate and former Justice Minister , Sean Doherty , revealed that Haughey had been fully informed of the tapping of two journalists ' telephones by police in 1982 in an effort to trace Cabinet leaks . |
| 15 | This will almost certainly not erase the loathing Jacques Chirac and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , the two parties ' leaders , feel for each other . |
| 16 | Hermione Lee 's preference , which I share , is for the disturbed , dark novels of Cather 's middle period — she is particularly good on The Professor 's House , a story whose protagonist contemplates a failing marriage and a philistine world from a writing room containing two dressmakers ' dummies , or ‘ forms ’ . |
| 17 | The protests flew thick and fast that McMillan should have been allowed to keep his crown because he was , mystifyingly , three rounds ahead on two judges ' scorecards and , more realistically , one in front on another . |
| 18 | The two companies ' coins and medals departments will be merged and run by Spink . |
| 19 | In particular , the combination of the two companies ' technologies is said to result in wide area network architectures that are highly scalable , simple to administer , and cost-efficient . |
| 20 | True , the two countries ' systems of choosing a leader and choosing a government are different , but there have been enough historic parallels to make Americans peer keenly at British elections . |
| 21 | The way in which the crisis of 1839 – 41 was resolved persuaded him that Britain might welcome an exploration of the two countries ' thoughts on the future of the Near East . |
| 22 | At the end of the 14th round of the US-Soviet talks on Dec. 15 , the US ambassador to the UNCD , Max Friedersdorf , commented that the two countries ' positions were " fairly close together on most issues ' and that there was a good chance that a chemical weapons treaty would be signed within two years . |
| 23 | At a banquet hosted by Yang Shangkun on Nov. 1 Nixon described the June crackdown as " excessive and unjustified " , saying that it had damaged US respect and confidence in the Chinese leadership and , speaking to Li Peng , he argued that the two countries ' differences over the events in June were " huge and unbridgeable " , but that Sino-US relations should not be allowed to founder over the issue . |
| 24 | However , after 1850 the two countries ' experiences begin to diverge . |
| 25 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 26 | The two countries ' governments have also promoted integrated pest management policies , helping farmers to apply pesticides only when necessary and reducing waste . |
| 27 | A package of economic documents was signed by the two countries ' Premiers on Oct. 22 , in addition to a protocol on the reduction of inter-republican enterprise debt . |
| 28 | The two countries ' chiefs of staff , Admiral William Crowe and General Sergei Akhromeyev , have also exchanged visits since then . |
| 29 | The impasse on how to ratify and implement the treaty was resolved in May in a series of bilateral negotiations between the USA on the one hand and Ukraine and Kazakhstan on the other , during which time the two countries ' Presidents , Leonid Kravchuk and Nursultan Nazarbayev , visited Washington . |
| 30 | The Chairman of Vietnam 's Council of Ministers , Senior Gen. Vo Van Kiet , hailed the visit as an " important event " in the normalization of the two countries ' relations . |