Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 2 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 3 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 4 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 5 | Certainly , there is evidence that the number of women convicted of assaults , woundings and violent crime has risen over the last two decades . |
| 6 | This positive momentum has accelerated over the last two or three years , though the Campaign is the first to recognise that it is only a modest part of a much larger movement . |
| 7 | Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years . |
| 8 | The environmental quality of national parks in England and Wales has deteriorated over the last two decades , according to the first-ever national survey carried out for the Countryside Commission . |
| 9 | Of one thing I am certain : I am sure we all agree that what has emerged over the last two years has exceeded our expectations . |
| 10 | The latest CBI/NatWest Innovation Trends Survey shows that after two years of decline , expenditure in support of innovation has increased in the last two years . |
| 11 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
| 12 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 13 | Just how far the market has declined in the last two years can be gauged by the performance of Henry Moore 's ‘ Reclining Figure No. 6 ’ ( lot 89 , est. $50,000–70,000 ) , an important bronze maquette dating from 1954 and closely related to the great elmwood reclining figure of 1959–64 . |
| 14 | Yet the need is such that our spending at home and overseas has doubled in the last two years and still vital pieces of work in the U K and overseas await funding . |
| 15 | Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners ' presence on their land . |
| 16 | The tendency of moral philosophers , thinks Moore , is to rush into the third question , without having dealt with the first two . |
| 17 | Had Gooch not been injured who knows what would have happened in the last two games ; but then , West Indies had their share of injuries , too . |
| 18 | The northbound carriageway between junctions nine and ten is still blocked and we 're told it 's likely to remain blocked for the next two hours . |
| 19 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 20 | One of the things I am obviously gon na have to look at is the what you 've done in the last two or three years because traditionally erm we would n't ask van drivers to come along and see us . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 22 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 23 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 24 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 25 | That is because of the way we 've behaved over the last two years . |
| 26 | The atmosphere in the tunnel had deteriorated in the last two hours as the cigarette smoke had grown thicker . |
| 27 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 28 | I think it 's it 's fairly reasonable particularly when you consider what we 've experienced over the last two three and four seasons . |
| 29 | Quite a few odd things had happened in the last two days and , though this was the first time she 'd admitted it even to herself , she 'd felt vaguely uneasy , threatened , ever since she 'd arrived in Venice . |
| 30 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |