Example sentences of "two [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had six bedrooms , which works out at two each , as well as two bathrooms and about eight downstairs rooms . |
| 2 | The French Captain Landolphe had previously noted that leading members of the Oba 's councils wore two necklaces as well as anklets and bracelets of coral , whereas lesser untitled officials were allowed only one necklace each . |
| 3 | If you wish to increase your writing speed , begin with sessions of two minutes or so and build up gradually . |
| 4 | Furthermore the referee , Colin Hawke , from New Zealand , ruined the game as a spectacle by blasting away in the whistle almost non-stop , awarding a penalty or a free-kick every two minutes or so , mostly against Scotland . |
| 5 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 6 | I think it 's I think it 's very easy to er to ex exaggerate the problem to take one anecdotal evidence of of one about one or two cases and maybe about one or two people and say this is a major problem in every school . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean Bartocci may lose the other two cases as well ? ’ asked the crumpled man . |
| 8 | The first view would probably extend the law further than it has commonly been thought to go and would expose strikers having no immunity under trade union legislation to a very wide-ranging liability ; on the other hand it is not quite accurate to describe the plaintiffs in these two cases as merely ‘ ricochet ’ victims for it may be the effect of pressure on the public and customers which causes the employer to succumb to the strikers ' demands . |
| 9 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 10 | As it was , with two glasses of champagne inside her , and as the mannequins displayed the latest fashions from Paris and London , she felt she was once more in heaven , even more so two hours or so later as Mr O'Hara 's chief assistants wrapped up the final choices : dresses , gowns and lingerie made of georgette , and flowered taffetas , moires , silks and satins , subtle lamés , artificial marocain and crêpe de Chine , in colours of white or pastel blue , cerise , pearl-grey , oyster and of course rose-opaline . |
| 11 | For unplanted Koi pools requiring a turnover of the entire volume once every two hours or so , Cyprio has introduced a range of pumps that can cope quite happily with solids of up to 10mm diameter . |
| 12 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 13 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
| 14 | She says that they need to be fed every two hours or so . |
| 15 | ‘ Washing never used to take you the whole night , two hours or more . ’ |
| 16 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 17 | Similarly , 4 per cent of Sun readers spent a heroic two hours or more reading the Sun every day , according to a 1975 study for the Press Commission . |
| 18 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 19 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 20 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 21 | It is extremely costly in time and money since such interviewing can easily take two hours or more , and the data produced are not easy to code and analyse . |
| 22 | They were detained over two hours and eventually released . |
| 23 | He made no comment on Lesley 's invitation and Charlotte 's acceptance of it , none on the curious complexities which had confounded their own relationship since they left ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ two hours and more ago . |
| 24 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 25 | Sitting on the next barstool was an antiques dealer called James ; he discussed his feelings with Clare for the next two hours and then took her to dinner at the Ox on the Roof , where she chose the most filling dishes . |
| 26 | Dialysis bags were inserted per rectum for two hours and then removed . |
| 27 | at eight o'clock at night for two hours and then go |
| 28 | Charges at long stay car parks Nun 's Close and Yorke Square , both in Richmond , rear of Leyburn Market Place , Gayle Lane , Hawes , and Muker car park in Swaledale will have a maximum waiting time of ten hours with a scale of charges running from 40p for the first two hours and thereafter 20p per hour up to a maximum of £1 per day . |
| 29 | and er and did n't realize it all the time I was wondering how it was in three , an hour and three quarters , two hours and inside was still er raw , an hour and |
| 30 | Two H two O and now we 've got the sulphate and the calcium . |