Example sentences of "in two [noun pl] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until 25 minutes later that he remembered — and by then the former Miss England had drowned in two feet of muddy water . |
| 2 | Wash the specimens gently in two changes of distilled water ( not tap water , which contains Fe and Ca ) for only a few seconds at a time — the stains are relatively soluble . |
| 3 | However , these motifs remain rare in Romano-British mosaic , and their occurrence in Leicester , in two pavements of second century date , is important . |
| 4 | The appellant was concerned with another youth aged 17 in a number of incidents in which five different people were approached in the street , threatened with violence and robbed in two cases of small sums of money . |
| 5 | JOBLESS Darren St John gobbled 5lb of strawberries in two pints of chilli-flavoured gravy to raise £450 for charity at Henley , Oxon . |
| 6 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
| 7 | His feet are usually cocooned in two pairs of thick socks and heavy walking boots — even during hot weather ! |
| 8 | The aircraft were in two flights of three aircraft . |
| 9 | This proviso was fundamental , and we can find it expressed in two letters of this period on the preference to be given to the claim of monastic life over every other demand — a theme of central importance in his thought . |
| 10 | He moved the most experienced soldiers in two squads of twenty-five men each , and deployed them to make a wedge within the stockade , their lines defending its walls , the point of the wedge facing the valley formed by the stream below the hot springs . |
| 11 | Each session lasts for four hours ( in two blocks of two hours each ) . |
| 12 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last Friday , on a delegation to Kiev , I took the opportunity — as I had always promised myself that I would if ever I were in Kiev — to visit Babi Yar , just outside the city limits , where in two years of Nazi terror and occupation tens of thousands of people were murdered ? |
| 13 | It stands in two acres of landscaped garden which was once a paddock for horses , and has a delightful lily pond and a revolving Victorian summer house . |
| 14 | Surrounded by the soft , rolling hills of Armadale , Moffat House is set in two acres of mature garden and has magnificent views of the Annan valley . |
| 15 | The latter study , which was conducted in Macomb , Illinois , discovered that during the period 1972 ( when Rossi carried out his research in Baltimore ) to 1979 , ‘ the seriousness rating of white-collar crime … increased both absolutely and to a greater extent than any other category ’ , and more important , increases in seriousness ratings were pronounced in two categories of corporate crime , particularly ‘ violence ’ ( resulting in death or injury ) and ‘ price-fixing ’ . |
| 16 | When it had boiled , whistling with a tinny Woolworth sibillance , he warmed the pot-bellied black teapot , spooned in two piles of thick tarry Indian leaves , left them awhile as he had a scratch of the back , then poured the dark brown liquid into a plain white cup , with saucer , added milk from a bottle plus two sweetening spoonfuls of caster sugar . |
| 17 | stated that the course was in two parts of 12 days . |
| 18 | Twelve people were killed and thousands of homes flooded in two days of ferocious gales . |
| 19 | A. Raistrick ( in Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare ) considers that the period of the Royal Mines Copper — forerunner of the famed London Lead Co. — was from 1692 to 1704 , but the actual conception must have been earlier than this , as the following shows . |
| 20 | 67 years ' service at age 56 A Bedale man has completed a total of 67 years in two branches of public service and he is still only 56 . |