Example sentences of "but two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he pointed out to his mother that there were but two keys to the room and the Shills had one each . |
| 2 | One of the escalators down to my underground platform is out of service , but two others are working . |
| 3 | But two others of the same group are needed for pollination to take place . |
| 4 | Four were soon recaptured , but two others , including Ricky Roberts , evaded capture . |
| 5 | Two were allowed home last night but two others were detained . |
| 6 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 7 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 8 | This figure lies on the high side of our initial estimate but two factors must be borne in mind . |
| 9 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |
| 10 | But two cases of tinned tomatoes , a sack of rice , a sack of sugar and a large quantity of packets of tea were quickly assembled and delivered within hours of the accident as an open and willing admission of the responsibility of the reckless s and silly youth 's family . |
| 11 | Stephanie , a mere stripling of 50 , thought at first she was n't old enough for her part , but two hours of make-up , a wig and plenty of padding soon solved that problem . |
| 12 | But two hours is quite bad enough . |
| 13 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 14 | But two groups of employees affected by the cap can only pay pension contributions or receive a pension calculated as a proportion of the capped figure no matter how high their actual salaries are . |
| 15 | The new circus company Ra Ra Zoo bring not one but two shows to the region this month . |
| 16 | Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 17 | One of the spoke machines from the Road Vehicle Shop was adapted ; cutter block was quickly made and set up by the tool-room , but two dimensions could not be attained in this process . |
| 18 | Okay , you may be wondering why I 'm wired up with not one but two microphones today . |
| 19 | But two decades of tinkering with the federal constitution have not so much created regional self-government as extended the practice of divide-and-rule perfected by the British colonists before independence . |
| 20 | Guinness may be easy to find in Indonesia today — but two decades ago it was a different story . |
| 21 | Opposite , to starboard , the blue cranes of John Brown 's , nothing moored alongside the bleak piers but two swans . |
| 22 | The range of types of organ damage is wide ( Table 3 and Figure 2 ) , but two manifestations deserve special mention . |
| 23 | Sometimes three males may share one female ( polyandry ) but two males sharing one female is the commonest situation . |
| 24 | We still had one Munro to go in our master plan , which was Meall Garbh to the north of Ben Lawers , but two minutes of huddling behind a rock reminded us that plans can be changed . |
| 25 | Steve Gaughan mustered his side 's first real effort after 35 minutes , a long range shot which Nigel Adkins saved at the foot of his post , but two minutes later they were almost level when a powerful Nick Cusack header from an Andy Toman cross was going into the bottom corner until Adkins somehow pushed the ball away . |
| 26 | But two minutes into injury time their defence got into a tangle after a Logrones throw and let the ball run through to Agustin Abadia , who thumped in his second goal of the day to level the scores . |
| 27 | But two North Wales MPs estimate that around 150 regular fishermen could be affected by the regulations . |
| 28 | In the Soviet view , pre-war developments pointed unmistakably towards not just one but two revolutions . |
| 29 | The male Ixmaritians paid him little heed and seemed to look at him as if he was a freak , but two girls , who occupied the rooms next to his own , became his especial friends . |
| 30 | But two Babergh District Council committee chairmen have now locked horns over the deal , with one accusing the other of acting outside his authority by intervening in the dispute . |