Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary .
2 Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types .
3 A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action .
4 Tony Ward , spokesman for the British Athletic Federation , said : ‘ Joan has been to two world and two European Championships and one Olympics .
5 An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment .
6 She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night .
7 The difference is that his compound is a nanocomposite — the crystals from which it is made are between two nanometres ( two millionths of a millimetre ) and ten nanometres across .
8 The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees .
9 The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably .
10 According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently .
11 He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him .
12 Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car .
13 When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla , Hazel had been in two minds .
14 Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun .
15 I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me .
16 I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know
17 The analysis of the data thus obtained was in two parts .
18 Attempts to test the state subsidy theory of strikes have been of two kinds : studies attempting to show the correlation , if any , between levels of benefits and strike activity over the years ; and studies exploring the views of strikers in relation to benefits and strike activity .
19 The pair , both 25 , have been through two days of hell — and team-mates fear the nightmare may have damaged their medal chances .
20 Sales in the product 's first year of deliveries amounted to only $1m , a drop in the bucket for a firm that 's been through two rounds of venture capital totalling $7.5m provided by Aspen Partners , Menlo Ventures and Matrix .
21 So he 's been for two years .
22 But then , I 'm so lazy with this band I could n't imagine being in two bands at once .
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