Example sentences of "two [noun pl] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 2 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 3 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed the extent to which the German economy has suffered from the worldwide slowdown and the fact that German output has decreased during the past two months for which figures are available ? |
| 4 | The suspended sentences are as follows : one month for Antonio Paolucci , the Florentine Soprintendente and two months for his deputy , Paolo Mazzoni , as well as for Francesco Sisinni , Director-General at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage , Emma Micheletti , a Ministry inspector who has now tended her resignation , Angelo Cavani , the former Soprintendente for the architectural heritage and Paolo d'Elia , chief engineer of Florence City Council . |
| 5 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give the figures for steel production in the United Kingdom for the last two years for which figures are available . |
| 7 | This left us with two alternatives for our 4-year-old . |
| 8 | There were two committees for which ballots were required , which were the National Examinations Board of Embalmers and the National Education Committee . |
| 9 | Formby make two changes for their home clash with Southport . |
| 10 | Lancashire have made two changes for their Toshiba County Championship match against Cumbria at Orrell tonight . |
| 11 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 12 | But Donald , to judge from the size of the congregation - they were three deep in the aisles and old Mr Donovan from 21b ( ‘ I fought two wars for you lot ’ ) had to wait outside the double doors — Donald was not experiencing what the French sociologist called the Lonely Death . |
| 13 | Earl was suspended for two matches for his assault . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll have a pint of lager and two Americans for my alligator ! ’ |
| 15 | Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food . |
| 16 | British Museum , London , the consortium 's magnanimous host , has so far obtained only two drawings for its pains . |
| 17 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |