Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One explosion from Bull and some serious sniping by Lineker could do the trick , but Yugoslavia have only lost twice in 20 matches since England routed them 4-1 in Belgrade in the European Championship two years ago and that wound was deep . |
| 2 | FK Austria , who played Arsenal in the European Cup two seasons ago , claim they can not afford to pay the insurance cover needed for their international release . |
| 3 | FK Austria , who played Arsenal in the European Cup two seasons ago , claim they can not afford to pay the insurance cover needed for their international release . |
| 4 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |
| 5 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |
| 6 | introduced a new Formula Two in 1967 and that same season saw the birth of the European Formula Two Championships with the first meeting at Snetterton on 24 March when the late Jochen Rindt ( Austria ) won the Guards Trophy over 174.5km ( 108 ) miles . |
| 7 | The patient complained of spontaneous pain diffusely in the right knee two months after the first bowel symptoms , 28 days after the start of prednisolone treatment , and after a cumulative dose of 2.3 g . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century two docks were built , the Alexandra and the Bentinck , capable of handling large ships from the Continent . |
| 9 | Mr Walden says he 's received numerous letters since the Iraqi invasion two months ago , and felt it important to take the opportunity to talk with the people he represents . |
| 10 | He told the old-age pensioner two jokes . |
| 11 | After working in Armagh he became Recorder of Belfast in 1982 and was appointed to the High Court two years later . |
| 12 | Mountbatten offered the British government two courses ; either there should be negotiations between Dutch and Indonesians with a view to bringing in a general ceasefire ( plan X ) or else punitive action against ‘ Known or suspected terrorists ’ ( plan Y ) . |
| 13 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 14 | A Gallup poll conducted for the Daily Telegraph two months after the Euro-elections found that an ‘ overwhelming ’ majority of the electorate , including three-quarters of those who voted Tory in the 1987 general election , believed the government was not doing enough to protect the countryside . |
| 15 | He suddenly realized that the impact of this too-vivid memory had slowed him down and finally arrested him in the middle of the wet pavement Two girls in a shop-doorway were staring at him and giggling . |
| 16 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
| 17 | Edwards has emphasised , ever since the annual meeting two weeks ago when he used his majority shareholding to secure Knighton a place on the United board that he would make his decision at the end of this season . |
| 18 | Edwards has emphasised , ever since the annual meeting two weeks ago when he used his majority shareholding to secure Knighton a place on the board , that he would make his decision at the end of this season . |
| 19 | In the Annual Report two years ago , I called for the careful co-ordination of export support services from both private and public sector organisations . |
| 20 | Of the first marriage there were three sons and four daughters ( one of whom died young ) and of the second marriage two daughters and a son . |
| 21 | Peter Butler , 40 , got divorced for the second time two years ago . |
| 22 | He never resumed the task but the following year two men were appointed to continue the work . |
| 23 | In 1969 a doping scandal at FC Bologna in Italy led to the entire team being found guilty ; in Uruguay the following year two internationalists admitted using an exotic African drug and in the World Cup prior to Argentina , FIFA banned the Haitian internationalist Ernst Joseph for taking the proscribed drug phenlmetrazin . |
| 24 | Between October 1989 and March 1990 there occurred a number of attacks on Spanish diplomatic missions : on Oct. 26 , 1989 , an explosive device wrecked the car of the Spanish consul-general in Rotterdam ; the following day two grenades were launched against a Spanish embassy building in The Hague ; on Dec. 6 a bomb exploded at the embassy itself . |
| 25 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 26 | EASTER holidaymakers heading out of London were delayed when the M1 was closed for more than two hours last night because of a suspect van on the hard shoulder two miles from where an IRA bomb exploded last week . |
| 27 | With difficulty Li Yuan brought the Arab 's head round and moved the stubborn beast two paces closer to the watching T'ang . |
| 28 | They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far . |
| 29 | At the little crossroads two kilometres north of Mailly , if you look to your extreme left you will see the lower edge of some vineyards one and-a-half kilometres away . |
| 30 | I remember when you and your brother were little , Lyn , Joanne was n't born , old Mr Crane over at Loomlade got killed in his car and they closed the electric shop two days out of respect and the branch in Byss . " |