Example sentences of "two [noun pl] is [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Two weeks is not a long time especially as social workers have many competing claims on their time .
2 Certainly a further ten flying within the next two years is not an over optimistic estimate .
3 Actually one twenty five to two pounds is quite a steep increase .
4 Of course , two knots is not a constant speed for a whole tide — you 've got to allow for periods of more or less slack water .
5 It is much stronger than the gravitational force : the electromagnetic force between two electrons is about a million million million million million million million ( 1 with forty-two zeros after it ) times bigger than the gravitational force .
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