Example sentences of "two [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 2 | The car was stolen in North Oxford on Christmas Eve , but recovered just two hours later a few miles away , and then taken to a garage in Cowley . |
| 3 | The time allotted in different local education authorities for solving the kinds of issue described above ranged from no time at all , through one day every term , two hours once a month , to one afternoon , and in one case a whole day each week . |
| 4 | Two hours more a week ? |
| 5 | Yes , that one 's two tablets twice a day and that 's for the water test . |
| 6 | bu , you take that to , er two tablets twice a day that 's it . |
| 7 | Two tablets twice a day . |
| 8 | It is possible the discovery could be part of Middle Eastern terrorism — two months ago a terrorist was blown up by his own bomb in a London hotel in an incident later linked to the Satanic Verses affair . |
| 9 | Less than two months ago a Thai A310 also smashed into a mountain near Katmandu , killing 113 . |
| 10 | But no one who thought so would treat the suggestion as an argument that the king can now , as the rules stand , move two steps once a game . |
| 11 | They do so normally alongside another approach , the hope being that by putting the two ingredients together a synthesis will appear . |
| 12 | Just over two weeks ago a 27 year old woman was sexually assaulted in an alleyway . |
| 13 | ‘ When Andy Saville broke his arm after signing two weeks ago a lot of people thought we would give up , but we pushed the boat out and bought John Thomas . |
| 14 | Two weeks ago a mother was seriously hurt in a crash while taking her three children to school on the A167 at Ferryhill . |
| 15 | Two weeks later a letter arrived from the solicitors for the archdiocese providing the assurance that we sought . |
| 16 | But two weeks later a friend in the motor trade serviced it for him and proclaimed the car to be in sound condition and a good deal . |
| 17 | Two weeks later a Jaguar crashed into the sea off Nairn , though the pilot ejected in time . |
| 18 | When New Yorkers first got word that war had started , those not glued to TV sets gravitated to Times Square , where little more than two weeks earlier a cheering crowd had watched the descent of a red , white and blue ball marking the dwindling seconds of 1990 . |
| 19 | Two years ago a young potter friend , Vivienne Newton , benefited from the Prince 's Trust . |
| 20 | Two years ago a consultative document from the Inland Revenue proposed that the loan-back be limited to 25 per cent . |
| 21 | Last season they won the junior Grand Slam and overwhelmed England 32–3 at Fylde , while two years ago a side containing Scott Gibbs and Neil Jenkins won 12–6 at Wrexham . |
| 22 | Two years ago a large building company bought up the remaining fields between the sites and the village and filled them with retirement homes . |
| 23 | While visiting Yugoslavia in those more happy days of some two years ago a member of the Swanage Railway noted the existence of a similar machine and reckoned that conversion would not be too difficult . |
| 24 | Two years ago a report by ERL , a British consultancy firm , said there were two possibilities : direct charges on those using the plant , or an indirect levy , a tax on chemicals , say . |
| 25 | Two years ago a Romanian government commission on the razing of gypsy villages concluded that violence had been provoked by ‘ persons [ ie , gypsies ] who have acquired vast possessions by illicit means . ’ |
| 26 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 27 | At this mine two years ago a man was buried and later died after a massive roof fall in an extended cut section . |
| 28 | TWO years ago a group of keen anglers from at Hull teamed up with employees from a local company , , for informal and friendly fishing matches . |
| 29 | TWO years ago a serious knee injury nearly forced Wayne Sleep to hang up his dancing shoes for good . |
| 30 | About erm eighteen months , two years ago a report was published , the Cockroft Report , this is the same Sir Wilfred Cockroft who 's chairing the Examination erm Council , which looked into the teaching of mathematics at all level in the country and it was an extremely good report and a lot has followed from it . |