Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] two [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house faces south and has a delightful sheltered terrace and two acres of garden which is host to a splendid bank of rhododendrons and a copse of red cedar , beech , willow and prunus . |
| 2 | When Nenna told them that she had urgent business on the other side of London and that she would have to ask whether Martha and Tilda could stay the night , Rochester accepted without protest , and they went over , taking with them their nightdresses , Cliff records , the Cliff photograph and two packets of breakfast cereals , for they did not like the same kind . |
| 3 | On average , British adults consume four cups of tea and two cups of coffee per day . |
| 4 | On Monday , at Teesside Crown Court , Sigsworth was jailed for three years after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary . |
| 5 | Yesterday Sigsworth , 33 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , two offences of assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary . |
| 6 | VII Sunblest Bread & Two Tail-Ends of Cod |
| 7 | Alan Rudge , BT 's technology director , encapsulated the scope of optical communications with the statistic that two strands of glass , tiny enough to pass through the eye of a needle , already can carry thousands of phone calls and hundreds of video channels . |
| 8 | Even Eldorado gets in on the act and two episodes of EastEnders will be screened , one on Christmas Eve and the other on Christmas Day . |
| 9 | ‘ We have arrested your boyfriend , Brendan McNally , for possession of hashish and two tabs of LSD , found on his person on Camden Lock , NW1 . |
| 10 | MAILLY : Complex structure of interbedded subsoils : Belemnite and two forms of Micraster chalks , calcareous-silty deposits , fine gravelly beds , colluvial clay and ferrous-brown calcareous clay . |
| 11 | VERZENAY : Complex structure of interbedded subsoils : Belemnite and two forms of Micraster chalks , calcareous-silty deposits , fine gravelly beds , various layers of ferrous siliceous pebbles and colluvial deposits of ferrous-brown flint-bearing clay . |
| 12 | VERZY : Complex structure of interbedded subsoils : Belemnite and two forms of Micraster chalks , calcareous-silty deposits , fine gravelly beds , various layers of ferrous-brown flinty pebbles east of the village and colluvial deposits of ferrous flint-bearing clay to the north . |
| 13 | Elena Rudakov sat beside her husband , and on the back seat of the car , in plastic bags , was a new nightdress of flannelette and two shirts for Yuri to wear at home and two kilos of turnips from the open market and a small rug to go in front of the stove in their living-room . |
| 14 | After a three-week trial and two days of deliberations , the jury yesterday found that Basinger had committed breach of contract and awarded Main Line 8.9m , which included general damages and compensation for the loss of her services . |
| 15 | Marx 's concern in Formen with defining two types of existence and two types of property is , however , not limited to establishing a contrast . |
| 16 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 17 | The first of these probably had a scleritome similar to halkieriids , with at least one shell and two types of sclerite . |
| 18 | Fripp , 25 , of King George Road , Ware , who admitted burglary and two charges of handling , was sentenced to 180 hours ' community service . |
| 19 | Let us think again about what is good in the dualist position : it captures the insight that two pieces of language can be seen as alternative ways of saying the same thing : that is , that there can be STYLISTIC VARIANTS with different STYLISTIC VALUES . |
| 20 | Many other individual gifts were also given , including a cake and two arrangements of flowers . |
| 21 | The police car stopped close beside the mini and two pairs of feet shod in heavy black leather appeared close beside Hoomey 's bulging eyes . |
| 22 | I presented a copy of our Journal and two sets of Bishop 's Castle Railway photographs to the Delegation as a memento of their visit to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 23 | The Corporals pulled out some more wine and two cases of beer and carried on drinking while supervising the digging party . |
| 24 | But Mr Onanuga is adamant that he sold Mr Lamont three bottles of Australian wine and two packets of Hamlet cigars for a total of Pounds 18.37 on a Gold Access card . |
| 25 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 26 | All this raises hopes that the Philippines will cast off the legacy of crony capitalism and two decades of decline . |
| 27 | No more than one biscuit or two squares of chocolate at the end of lunch . |
| 28 | Fresh fruit ( instead of biscuit or two squares of chocolate ) at the end of lunch on two days a week . |
| 29 | ( This still leaves two days where lunch can be finished by either a biscuit or two squares of chocolate . ) |
| 30 | The foresters gave evidence that two townsmen of Colchester had been seen hunting in the forest , but had evaded attachment . |