Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raid in Wadeville industrial zone was followed two hours later by an ambush about four miles away on a mini-bus taxi in which two black passengers were killed . |
| 2 | Bryan Robson , doubtful for the World Cup match against Poland 24 hours ago , returned for United last night to cruise for 20 minutes before erupting into Captain Marvel , never shirking a tackle and being denied two goals only by the crossbar and a brilliant diving save from Alan Knight . |
| 3 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 4 | An enigmatic reference to Meistersinger in a letter to Rohde in August is followed two months later by an avowed relish for the emotive Wagnerian ethos to which Meistersinger presents , comparatively , such a contrast . |
| 5 | During the 1960 campaign , the Kennedy entourage dodged the opposition 's charges about the disease , which was diagnosed two decades earlier by a London doctor who commented , ‘ He has n't got a year to live . ’ |
| 6 | The £2.2 million striker was cleared two weeks ago by a Football Association appeal panel of feigning injury in a clash with Coventry defender Andy Pearce . |
| 7 | He began his planning in January but found practice curtailed two weeks ago by a heavy snowfall . |
| 8 | What was thought to have been an alga growing on sandstone rocks in a dry valley of Antarctica , was identified only two years ago by a Smithsonian botanist as a lichen . |
| 9 | A similar sister coach B16 of the same year and vintage was restored some two years ago by the same Birkenhead company . |
| 10 | In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all . |
| 11 | The authorizing of a new ordination service for the clergy in 1550 was followed two years later by the appearance of a second Edwardian Prayer Book , and by the last months of Edward 's reign the country was officially Protestant . |
| 12 | However , he considered that only locomotives with a single pair of driving wheels were really suitable for express-train service and the first of these were built in 1868 , followed two years later by the larger 4–2–2 type with outside cylinders and driving wheels eight feet in diameter , whose simple and elegant outline created great interest . |
| 13 | The first UK haulier to be accredited , in June 89 , was voted ‘ Quality haulier of the Year ’ two years later by the Motor Transport Industries . |
| 14 | The coup was nominally the work of young rebel soldiers of the Engin Lourd motorized unit , formed two years previously by the then ruler of the country , Gen. Prosper Avril . |
| 15 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 16 | On the night of 9–10 July 1943 , landing from the sea , it put out of action two Italian coastal batteries at Cape Murro di Porco , and followed this two days later by a daylight landing and attack on Augusta , which was strongly defended by troops of the Hermann Goering division . |
| 17 | At least it might have done if its launch had n't been followed two days later by the scandalous sentencing of drink-driver Christopher Hart . |
| 18 | Thomas was dismissed on April 11 , and replaced as acting governor two days later by the Assam Governor , Loknath Mishra . |
| 19 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 20 | .. while still watching the crater , I noticed a small cloud pass out , followed two seconds later by a considerable cloud . |