Example sentences of "two [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 2 | Two researchers at the prestigious Salk institute in San Diego , California have proposed an alternative theory : that the Spanish oil syndrome is a violent auto-immune disease ( that is , the body attacks itself ) triggered by an elusive bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumoniae . |
| 3 | Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) need to be completely phased out because of their contribution to the greenhouse effect , say two researchers at the University of Munster , Germany . |
| 4 | Issues that should take at least an hour of discussion with colleagues , as well as with the pupil concerned , have to be dealt with in two minutes at the staffroom door during break . |
| 5 | It would have two minutes at the end ! |
| 6 | After almost two hours at the wheel yesterday , Senna limped away from his car , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brake trouble during the last quarter of the 73-lap race . |
| 7 | It was typical of his thorough approach that after Arsenal won 7–1 at Wolverhampton , he spent nearly two hours at the team talk analysing what led up to Wolves ’ one goal , much to the dismay of the players , who expected only a brief meeting after such a handsome win . |
| 8 | I knew I needed the disguise because I would be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 9 | And we would never be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below the permitted hours in those premises in the evening shall be increased by the addition of two hours at the end thereof . |
| 11 | Two hours at the most , ’ he answered , conversational himself . |
| 12 | In Piddington v. Bates the power was employed to enable the police to station no more than two pickets at the entrance to a factory . |
| 13 | The company will present seven performances five evenings and two matinees at the town 's Epic Leisure Centre from October 4 . |
| 14 | Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required . |
| 15 | Two lecturers at the University of Swansea are lecturing in a local pub . |
| 16 | On Oct. 10 Kuron 's two superiors at the BfV , Stefan E. , 36 , and Günther N. , 54 , were arrested . |
| 17 | This is a good song because it not only has actions but can also be sung by two groups at the same time . |
| 18 | For example , in the study of older people in Aberdeen , younger ( 60–74 ) middle-class men and older ( 75+ ) working-class women were the two groups at the extreme ends of the income distribution . |
| 19 | Attitudes as well as writing skills will be compared in the two groups at the beginning and end of a 12 week experimental teaching period . |
| 20 | Evergreen are spinning two yarns at the moment : . |
| 21 | Talbot Square in 1962 , with trams of two generations at the loading island . |
| 22 | Homesplan : Permission is being sought to build two houses at the former St Stephen 's vicarage in Reservoir Road , Prenton . |
| 23 | Gladstone Murray was a round-faced balding man whose spectacles often slipped down his nose ; he had a greying moustache and he invariably carried his drinking glass between two fingers at the top of the glass . |
| 24 | Uninvited , she positioned two fingers at the entrance of his arsehole , and crudely thrust into him . |
| 25 | Here we can see the paired jointed legs that are attached to each body segment , the feathery gill on a stalk alongside each leg , two feelers at the front of the head , the gut running the entire length of the body , even the muscle fibres along the back which enabled the animal to roll itself up into a ball . |
| 26 | He had already drafted two acts at the beginning of the previous year , and even before he had been taken ill this autumn he had begun the work of revising them . |
| 27 | BrdU showed two peaks at the 18th and the 24th percentile . |
| 28 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 29 | They spent £100 on recording the two songs at the tiny Billiard Room studio , which is housed in a garage connected to a large house in a residential part of Leeds . |
| 30 | United , leading 3-0 at the time , conceded two goals at the final whistle . |