Example sentences of "two and " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 2 | Provincial cities which had ten to twelve theatres now have one or two and probably there were double the number of actors at that time . |
| 3 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 4 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 5 | Look at any toddler 's drawing of the two and you will see what I mean . |
| 6 | An intrauterine device also known as an IUD , IUCD , loop or coil is a small , flexible object between two and four centimetres in length , made of plastic or plastic wound with copper . |
| 7 | Of 100 women using an IUD between two and four will become pregnant each year . |
| 8 | All accounted for and two and a half hours to spare . |
| 9 | Duration of meaningful contact , two and a half minutes , fifteen minutes . |
| 10 | In fact , there is n't a great deal of difference between the two and the one merges into the other . |
| 11 | In the morning I opened the kitchen door an inch or two and peered inside . |
| 12 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 13 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 14 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 15 | The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this . |
| 16 | The result is a townscape of ‘ terrible despairing cries ’ which mean , and mean more than , that the drunks are leaving the pubs between two and three o'clock in the morning , the pubs that reek of alcohol and cucumber and fish . |
| 17 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 18 | Though the powers of Vice Chancellors are considerable , they do not include the power to make two and two make five . |
| 19 | But several senior finance officers said last week that between two and three dozen health authorities could face bed closures and service cuts in the next couple of months , with others deferring developments . |
| 20 | In Spain Real Madrid now lead on goal difference from Atletico Madrid and Sevilla after a 4-1 win over Cadiz , Hugo Sanchez scoring two and Bernd Schuster one . |
| 21 | It is an irrelevant disappointment that after her delightful scene with Princess Katherine ( Emma Thompson ) , Geraldine McEwan as Alice has nothing to do but adjust a veil or two and look pleased . |
| 22 | The procedure takes between two and three hours . |
| 23 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 24 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |
| 25 | Bernard Lavery is the doyen of the home-grown British giant vegetable world , and he organised yesterday 's event at Alton Towers , the Midlands pleasure park which attracts two and a half million visitors a year . |
| 26 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 27 | In two and a half pages there were seven references to efficiency , five to value for money , four to economies and two each to savings and cost effectiveness . |
| 28 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 29 | His left thigh , his jumping take-off leg , which was always an inch and a half thicker than the right , is now two and a half inches thinner . |
| 30 | My thoughts went back to yesterday evening and Jock at No. 4 Commando , the damage done to him by a German mortar bomb , his head almost split in two and a leg blown off . |