Example sentences of "[adj] two [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They more or less called him a fool when he tried to change back into whatever it was our current whatever it was and if that 's the case erm Hungar Hungarians are holding on to this two thousand pound , it 's surety is n't it ? |
| 2 | Now that , that Street with , with , from two hundred yards of it there 'd be nine , nine terraces each with twenty four houses in each terrace within this two hundred yards so there were a lot of people closely knit together and er there was quite a lot of unem unemployment , quite a lot of poverty . |
| 3 | Well I know in one terrace alone in Street , Street used to have three big bonfires in this two hundred yards and I 've known one terrace , Terrace to have as many as twenty mattresses you know piled on the street ready for , and the big lad the bigger lads used to , to get the props get somebody 's prop and stoke the fire up and put the mattresses on . |
| 4 | wi not an extortionate amount of wages and we 've just had this two hundred pound for the to be transferred to Mansfield . |
| 5 | it 's a bit Shylockish , we want our pound of flesh at the end of this day , now that , the fact that the cost of that pound of flesh will cost you more than this two hundred pound a week |
| 6 | Yes , you turn right to the two one zero , clear two thousand feet altitude , to one eight twin zero , two zero . |
| 7 | Two early carp and tench fell to double red maggot then switched to the feeder as the drift increased , added another two crucial carp . |
| 8 | In May , Mr and his group had the opportunity to vote with us in spending another two million pounds on the education system of this county , and now he is complaining only six months later , that we are n't spending enough , and I think we 've said before , the Conservatives have , and continue to have the opportunity for action , but they will not support their words with deeds . |
| 9 | He ordered another two hundred grams of vodka . |
| 10 | Instead of being patient , he paid another two hundred pounds into the bank . |
| 11 | and anyway she rang David up and she said , she did n't say it were for Bet but she said she wanted another two hundred pounds |
| 12 | One energetic character asked if we minded waiting while he climbed another two hundred feet to see what the view over a nearby rise was like . |
| 13 | Meanwhile another two hundred orphans are waiting to get out of Bosnia , and they 'll move into Wendlebury . |
| 14 | Scarcity limited its purchase to the wealthy and quinine did not become available generally for the treatment of malaria for another two hundred years , when the Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies . |
| 15 | I mean , there 's enough coal in the United Kingdom to last for another two hundred years ! |
| 16 | for another two hundred pound for if I get it right is it to fetch it over to Mansfield or their |
| 17 | And when he 'd finished , he sticks them for another two hundred credits — danger money . ’ |
| 18 | She packed that one in and she says she 's still doing this for another two two week I think she says and that 's erm what you call it ? |
| 19 | It has now been agreed that another two such seminars will be held and Douglas will shortly be asking for nominations to attend . |
| 20 | Bettencourt slipped a beautiful reverse pass to Feaster who raced in to slam dunk another two spectacular points midway through the second half . |
| 21 | By the close of this century , another two billion people will be born , the great majority in developing countries . |
| 22 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 23 | These episodes gave a total of 551 two second time intervals before the onset of the common cavity episodes , and 476 two second time intervals after the common cavity onset . |
| 24 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 25 | The National Heritage Memorial Fund say they 're prepared to match his gift with a further two million pounds on the understanding that a public appeal be launched to raise a similar sum . |
| 26 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 27 | A further two female family members , both siblings from the 3rd generation , who required surgery for the same condition are now reported . |
| 28 | Celia Brown's(1986) study was carried out in two districts of Avon County ; 23 parents were interviewed and a further two completed questionnaires . |
| 29 | Duncan Young , area sales manager covering the Ponteland , Hexham and Gosforth offices of General Accident Property Services , has been put in charge of a further two more offices in Newcastle city centre . |
| 30 | In July 1985 two serious disturbances occurred in Handsworth , but both were played down and went unreported in the media . |