Example sentences of "[pron] two [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 2 | Rose had already given her two weeks ' salary . |
| 3 | She did not have much baggage with her , as most of her belongings , accumulated in her two years ' stay in New York , had been sent ahead by sea . |
| 4 | However , as her dearest wish was for Polly to follow her two sisters ' example and ‘ settle down ’ , that was not surprising . |
| 5 | Not only did he immediately assume overall direction of the battle , organizing his forces and ever-increasing artillery power , but he at once ordered the reoccupation and rearming of the outlying forts , to each of which two weeks ' supply of food and water for every man was dispatched . |
| 6 | should award you two weeks ' pay . |
| 7 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 8 | The officials finally admitted they were wrong — and paid Pete his two weeks ' benefit of £84 . |
| 9 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 10 | This saving of time , together with our two days ' leave , gave us a full forty-eight hours at home . |