Example sentences of "of two [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can think of two other people who might want Hereward dead . ’ |
| 2 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
| 3 | Detectives waiting to question Pringle about the siege and shooting of two other people have mounted a constant vigil at his hospital bedside . |
| 4 | And this was the story of two young people who were very much in love . |
| 5 | The bodies of two young people , believed to be a missing German couple , have been found on Skye . |
| 6 | The bodies of two young people , believed to be those of missing German student Linda Bohlen and her boyfriend , have been found on Skye . |
| 7 | An inquest into the deaths of two young people killed in a car accident in South Oxfordshire , is expected to take place this week . |
| 8 | On Sunday night , in the darkness , the feverish minds of two sleeping people create images of terror . |
| 9 | The proposed siting of a waste tip near the bank of the river Dee in north Wales will produce poisonous liquids which will threaten the drinking water supply of two million people , according to the local MP , Martyn Jones . |
| 10 | BNFL and the nuclear industry in general received some strong backing in two recent publications — and from the pen of two influential people . |
| 11 | I can think now of two elderly people I know , who never , ever got over a burglary . |
| 12 | Vandals who put a gas cylinder on a railway line have been accused of putting the lives of two hundred people at risk . |
| 13 | The resolution reiterated a proposal for " direct negotiations between the leaders of the two communities " and stressed that " no concessions can be made on the principles of sovereignty , self-determination … [ or ] the existence of two separate peoples symbolizing the founding partnership " . |
| 14 | A choir is celebrating being chosen to perform in front of two thousand people at a national rally . |
| 15 | They uphold the feasibility ( ! ) of two billion people , diverse in language , colour , nationality and religion , living together in harmony . |
| 16 | ‘ All a figment of two old people 's overblown imagination . ’ |
| 17 | " The names of two more people connected with the Norman Scott affair have been given to the police . |
| 18 | Especially in building a marriage of two different people with two different ways of looking at life . |
| 19 | Think about two people 's abstract contemplation would still be the contemplation of two different people . |
| 20 | At present the London Implementation Group smells too much of hole in the corner deals : the working part of the group consists only of two named people , one of them a former Thames regional chairman , and the ordinary members of the specialty review committees ( see p 589 ) and of the all important Primary Health Care Forum had not yet been announced as we went to press . |
| 21 | The descriptions of two older people , each in their own setting , bring out especially vividly the inequalities of later life . |
| 22 | the dyad , a system of two interrelated people with their interpersonal system ; |