Example sentences of "over the [adj] two [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds .
2 These conclusions are confirmed by what happened at Eighth Army HQ over the following two days , as we shall come to shortly .
3 Business and elections were conducted on the first day , followed by speeches and discussion spread over the following two days and an evening conversazione where " everybody was in the best of spirits .
4 We hope that you will then be able to travel around Wales to see some of the issues with which we are concerned over the following two days .
5 We were to find it repeated elsewhere over the following two weeks .
6 Over the following two weeks President Turgut Özal called meetings of both party leaders and of the Council of Ministers , and on April 13 full details of the measures were announced .
7 Further clashes occurred over the following two weeks , and on Dec. 6 two high-school students were killed .
8 On May 3 the Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that 65 " extremists and rioters " had been arrested at Imbabah , that rioting had been quelled at Isna in the Qina governorate — where in the previous week " three extremists " had killed a guard of the state security investigation department — and that he intended " to strengthen the security presence " in various governorates over the following two weeks .
9 What happened in the relay at the European Championships bears an important relationship to some of the friction , argument and unpleasantness that occurred , mostly between Frank Dick and me , over the following two years , so it is important to record an unbiased , respected outsider 's view of what actually took place .
10 Parts of the aircraft were missing when Harris purchased 133722 , and over the following two years , the tail assembly , engine , engine mount , cowlings , and many other portions of the aircraft had to be located , acquired , modified or made .
11 Most spectacularly of all , the Soviet leader announced a reduction of 500,000 in the size of Soviet armed forces over the following two years , including reductions in the number of divisions in both Europe and Asia and changes in the structure of the forces that remained ( including the withdrawal of a large number of tanks ) so that their purposes became more clearly peaceful .
12 With the proven success of Alert , five more Trackers were launched over the following two years , the last four of these were slightly modified to provide more accommodation aft and were known as Mark II's .
13 The remainder would then be destroyed over the following two years provided that no third country refused to comply with the ban .
14 The World Bank announced on July 10 that Egypt was to receive a total of US$8,000 million from about 30 governments and international institutions over the following two years .
15 The creditors ' approval remained dependent on US$4,100 million of debt being repaid over the following two years .
16 In 1873 Gladstone 's government passed the Judicature Act ( succeeded by further statutes over the following two years ) .
17 The period of intensive fieldwork lasted from the summer of 1983 to the summer of 1984 , but there was continuing contact with both companies over the following two years .
18 Settlement of the issues of border troops and conventional forces would take place following discussions over the subsequent two months , although it was recognized in the protocols that Ukraine was creating its own armed forces as of Jan. 3 , 1992 .
19 Over the subsequent two years , details of corticosteroid use and surgery were recorded although biochemical parameteres were not monitored .
20 The lack of international controls in the North Pacific Ocean , and the proliferation of the salmon , tuna , billfish , and squid drift-net fleets over the past two decades , has resulted in the development of a North Pacific fishery so huge that during the 6-month season , the 1000 or so vessels involved deploy 35 million km ( 1.9–3.4 million miles ) of netting .
21 Taiwan 's economic growth has been probably the world 's fastest over the past two decades .
22 There has been a significant reduction in the numbers of young people placed in residential settings over the past two decades .
23 He mentioned studies over the past two decades — this is far too short a period to obtain real evidence in such matters .
24 The histories of Nicaragua and Mozambique over the past two decades have similarities .
25 Yet over the past two decades the period of development , of safety testing , and of approval , has risen from 3 or 4 years , to something like 10 years .
26 Yet over the past two decades we have seen reductions , in almost all countries surveyed , from eight to seven and sometimes even to six year primary cycles .
27 While this view may have been valid a century ago , the situation has changed over the past two decades and ceramics are now widely used in many engineering applications , including wear components , seals , bearing surfaces and engine components .
28 Over the past two decades , the Commission and Court have been asked by aggrieved individuals to rule upon matters such as the rights of prisoners to communicate with the outside world and police interrogation methods .
29 On the office walls are the shoes and work tools of those killed in police shootings over the past two decades .
30 Abundant research over the past two decades has indicated that the language employed by most adults when addressing babies and infants is , in fact , highly simplified and largely correct in terms of grammar .
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