Example sentences of "two [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the inhabitants of Nouvion — two hours from Boulogne on the main road to Paris — remain unaware of the fame their village 's name enjoys in Britain . |
| 3 | Two meetings with Philip during the spring resulted in the truce being prolonged until midsummer but otherwise served only to widen the gap between the two sides . |
| 4 | The finest are two views of Rome along the Tiber by Bellotto dating from the 1740s ( est. $1–1.5 million each ; £666,000–1,000,000 ) , a river landscape by Francesco Guardi ( est. $150,000–200,000 ; £100,000–133,000 ) and a view of a fortified manor house on a river by Jan van Goyen ( est. $40,000–60,000 ; £26,600–40,000 ) . |
| 5 | What the inner northern roads do is encourage people to go into Knaresborough via Bond End but there is a considerable compensating decrease on the other two roads into Knaresborough from the Harrogate direction . |
| 6 | When Aston Villa forward Billy Walker scored two goals against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final of 1920 he was wearing a kit that looked like it had been designed by Yohji , styled by Gaultier and captured for posterity by Bruce Weber and his trusty box brownie . |
| 7 | Leeds struggled to overcome Hull KR 13–4 despite a try from Hanley and two goals from Gallagher in the first 13 minutes . |
| 8 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 9 | Two Gentlemen in Veroni at the Barbican . |
| 10 | No , neither were we when we took two trips to London in a fortnight . |
| 11 | Over the past 46 years Professor Tom Hewer and his wife , Anne , have made a delightful garden in two acres in Henbury on the outskirts of Bristol . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Third , a study in Greater Glasgow ( Haw 1985 ) investigated problem drug use during the years 1980–83 using routine statistics , and by a prospective survey of four agencies and fieldwork in two areas of Glasgow during the first three months of 1984 . |
| 14 | IN SEARCH of ‘ Socialist Realist ’ art styles , New York art dealer Paul Judelson recently shipped two statues of Lenin from the Soviet Union to offer for sale in America . |
| 15 | The boy , from a children 's home in east Belfast , was said to have taken over £1,200 in the two robberies at Ballyhackamore in the past week . |
| 16 | It was reported that about 20,000 refugees fled to Uganda and Zaïre in the last two weeks of January as a result of the fighting . |
| 17 | A fourteen-year-old boy who 's been charged with twenty-seven crimes this year is spending two weeks in Spain at the taxpayers expense . |
| 18 | Your long-term goals may make it worth sacrificing your two weeks in Turkey for a training course . |
| 19 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
| 20 | £444 Cost of two weeks in Majorca for a family of four as holiday firms slash their prices for summer '93 |
| 21 | An interesting example of the choices made for this first volume is between the two poems to Octavia on the subject of marriage . |
| 22 | But during Clinton 's two years at Oxford in the heady days of the late Sixties , attitudes were different |
| 23 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 24 | The Bishops have set aside two days in May for the services at Gloucester Cathedral . |
| 25 | At this period he added two memoirs on Fife to the extensive list of books , memoirs and papers which had flowed from his pen . |
| 26 | There follows two pages from Erica at the ABON LANGUAGE SCHOOL : giving list of names and addresses of the students you 'll be collecting tomorrow morning . |
| 27 | Auchinleck claimed that he was not ready to attack , but was ordered by Churchill to do so , to coincide with the running of two convoys to Malta in the moonless period in June . |
| 28 | It was common for Western Christians of the Middle Ages to see these two friends of Jesus as the first exponents of the active and contemplative life respectively . |
| 29 | Christy 's two shots to the last were something special , and that was a wonderful two putt from Jose-Maria at the last to score the important point . |
| 30 | Superpowered craft capable of surging across the water at 120mph will take part in a high speed challenge for the class two championship of Europe over the weekend of June 19–20 . |