Example sentences of "of two [noun] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 2 | By the autumn of 1985 , they were playing an average of two concerts a week . |
| 3 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 4 | Well the lower class of course they were the labouring class and the out of works and and the very low , you see the the people on probably a wage of two pounds a week and less . |
| 5 | In an effort to head off further trouble from the military Aquino initiated a series of two meetings a week with officers for a " free-wheeling dialogue " . |
| 6 | There was an average of two deaths a week , of which 517 could have been prevented . |
| 7 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 8 | We will require employers to release their employees aged under 19 for a minimum of two days a week further education and/or training for nationally recognised qualifications . |
| 9 | With ‘ good head office staff , I 've been able to spend upwards of two days a week out in the service and if you keep that up it 's amazing how many places you will have been over the years and we now have a much more open relationship ’ . |
| 10 | Fees of two guineas a year were to be charged in the Upper ( books and stationery extra ) ; the Lower was still free . |
| 11 | The 1850 statement of progress speaks of a curriculum designed to ‘ prepare pupils for any position in life which they may be called upon to occupy [ and which ] can be afforded at the moderate fee of two guineas a quarter ’ . |
| 12 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |