Example sentences of "there were [adv] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were eventually two plans . |
| 2 | Five years ago there were over two hundred kidnappings there — the pickings were rich along the Costa Smeralda for those who were sticking it out on the hills above — but last year there were only three , and one of those a complete failure . |
| 3 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 4 | There were over two dozen of them . |
| 5 | Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there . |
| 6 | There were already two grown-up sons from the first marriage ; these sons were twenty or more when Sigmund was born . |
| 7 | In the 1590s it appeared that there were already two reversioners to the post of Clerk to the Privy Seal , when a request came from Edward Reynolds for a third . |
| 8 | There were previously two cottages here and during early alterations the gallery came within the house . |
| 9 | After 1540 there were normally two such secretaries ; and though they handled an enormously wide range of business , domestic , Irish and later colonial , " the care of foreign affairs was their most important duty " . |
| 10 | These high-ranking bureaucrats , of whom there were normally two or three at any one time and who had always long practical experience of international relations , controlled the day-to-day working of the machinery of French diplomacy and were of critical importance to its effectiveness . |
| 11 | Whereas there were nearly two thousand SAS and SBS members , the 14th INT had no more than a hundred , of which only thirty were field-operational . |
| 12 | ‘ So there were effectively two Lee Jackson companies by this time . |
| 13 | There were thus two concurrent stereotypes of the old . |
| 14 | There were thus two examination systems set on diverging courses for membership of the same Division . |
| 15 | There were thus two possibilities : Either we are in a region of the universe in which strong sources are less frequent than the average ; or the density of sources was higher in the past , when the light left the more distant sources on its journey toward us . |
| 16 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 17 | Most of the courses planned for the forthcoming autumn term of 1956 were 12-week Terminals , although there were also two 21-week Long Terminals and five 24-week Sessionals ; local history , literature and art were the most popular subjects . |
| 18 | There were also two occasions where Ultra appeared to fail — the bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940 , and the raid which caused the great fire of London in December of that year . |
| 19 | There were also two men from nearer home : from Polmont near Falkirk , and from Helensburgh . |
| 20 | Turning to the parliamentary review programmes , new programmes that started when televising began were the daily round-up programmes on the business of the previous day , BBC2 's Westminster and ITN 's Westminster Programme ; there were also two weekly programmes on Sundays , BBC2 's Westminster Week and Channel 4 's A Week in Politics . |
| 21 | There were also two of Antonietta 's brothers , a brother and sister-in-law of Gennaro 's and one of Gennaro 's uncles . |
| 22 | He ended by writing twenty-five pages , some of which he read to Elinor late one night , There were also two longish poems in free verse , which he did n't yet feel quite ready to expose to the world . |
| 23 | There were also two in Chichester Harbour in December 1963 , and the species has been recorded in late October , November and January in the past . |
| 24 | There were also two incidents at Hadfelds Square , Hatfield Peverel . |
| 25 | There were also two libretti for oratorios probably dating from 1765 , as well as other miscellaneous poems . |
| 26 | There were also two great monarchies , Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire , which , whatever concessions they might have to make to nationality in practice , could not accept that statehood went with nationhood . |
| 27 | Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) . |
| 28 | There were also two young men who lived in No. 45 , who had not actually been seen by Alice . |
| 29 | There were also two French anthropologists , a raggedly effete group of Dutch and American missionaries , from opposing Christian denominations politely vying for the Toraja 's attentions , and the splendid Werner Meyer , looking like the Cheshire Cat in safari costume . |
| 30 | But there were also two living things in the shed . |