Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors paid two shillings per week each to walk several circuits of these paths after taking their curative waters . |
| 2 | The tax was paid by the occupier ( or if a house was empty by the owner ) at the rate of two shillings per hearth in equal instalments at Ladyday and Michaelmas . |
| 3 | The men earn about half a crown per day in summer , and two shillings in winter ’ . |
| 4 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 5 | Execution warrants for March 7 were issued for two prisoners on death row , despite international calls for clemency . |
| 6 | Of two prisoners in goal , one may hang himself , the other go on hunger strike : the former is committing a positive act , the latter an act of passive resistance . |
| 7 | With the two institutions in competition for the audience , their policies converged towards the demands of the audience . |
| 8 | She was tall , a little on the stout side , and had long brown hair with one or two streaks of grey in it which was caught up in a bun perched on the top of her head . |
| 9 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 10 | His biological tinctures and other soluble substances were diluted in a water/alcohol mixture , using two scales of dilution : the 1 in 10 known now as the D or X ( D = decimal , X = 10 ) range of potencies ; and the 1 in 100 , the C ( C = centesimal ) range . |
| 11 | There are two scales of temperature used in science . |
| 12 | Figure 3.1 compares the two scales of temperature . |
| 13 | However , for those wanting a fuller account of the mechanisms of plate movement , McKenzie and Richter ( 1976 ) discuss the possibility of two scales of convection while Boss ( 1983 ) reviews research on the convection question . |
| 14 | Explorations of contemporary feminist artists include Judy Chicago 's ‘ Dinner Party ’ and two essays on Faith Ringgold , on her observations of America in the 1960s ( Lowery Sims ) the other , on Afrocentrism in Ringgold 's work . |
| 15 | The care or supervision of children , though not strictly speaking housework , is included because in practice it was impossible to make an adequate distinction between the two activities of housework and child-care . |
| 16 | THE ACARD report on computer-aided design and manufacture gives two definitions of CAD : Computer-aided draughting : ‘ The use of a computer-based system for translating concepts or sketches into drawings suitable for use in manufacture , or for storing drawings or parts of drawings in a data bank to be available on call for modification , incorporating into a revised drawing , or as input to a subsequent manufacturing process . ’ |
| 17 | From the start , his two definitions of culture , that of a class and that of the whole people , ‘ have to be kept distinct but always in relation ’ . |
| 18 | She 's also charged with keeping two birds of prey at the fort which contravened wildlife regulations . |
| 19 | L Mairs ( Kells ) has the best two birds in Section B followed by N McKee ( Antrim ) . |
| 20 | A Agnew ( Ballyclare ) has the best two birds in Section C followed by W McClelland ( Doagh ) . |
| 21 | Police are quizzing staff and contractors in Middlesbrough municipal buildings after the theft of the nine-carat chains and two badges of office . |
| 22 | Shortly afterwards , Renoir even sold two canvases to Zborowski in order to help Modigliani . |
| 23 | On May 11th , Mr Yeltsin sacked two opponents of reform within his government . |
| 24 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 25 | When the temperature changes , the timing period will vary by up to two minutes per degree approximately . |
| 26 | There are several of these , the key one being ‘ two minutes per wicket taken ’ . |
| 27 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 28 | In fact , it 's two minutes on screen . |
| 29 | ‘ One Saturday we were kept waiting for TWO MINUTES for Science Now on Radio 4 which then ran its full 30 minutes . |
| 30 | and a fiver , no , he must of put a bet on , borrowed the paper and borrowed the money to put the bet on same day dry cleaning service , you can pick it up at two minutes to midnight madam |