Example sentences of "[noun sg] just two " in BNC.

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1 The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao .
2 In describing a future coalition government he promised that ‘ we will not give representatives of the other side just two or three armchairs ’ .
3 DARLINGTON 'S dismal season plumbed new depths on Saturday when they were thrashed 83–6 by a Blaydon side just two divisions above them in the Courage League .
4 Thomas Dooley scored the Americans ' first goal in 389 minutes of international football just two minutes before half-time .
5 But the company which took his money just two months ago has now closed down .
6 A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier .
7 A SINGLE mother and her two children have been evicted from their home just two weeks before Christmas .
8 The new chief executive , David Beeton ( a descendant of the famous Mrs ) , put his feet under the desk just two weeks ago .
9 The largest of Spain 's beautiful , sub-tropical Canary Islands , Tenerife basks under a hot sun just two hundred miles off the coast of Africa , sharing the same latitude as Florida and California .
10 Lalita Nayee , 31 , had bought the machine just two hours earlier at an Argos store .
11 A YOUNG wife happily looking forward to her first baby was hung by her cheating husband just two weeks before the child was due , a court heard yesterday .
12 ‘ The telling fact here is that the Charles and Camilla phone call is said to have taken place just two weeks before the call between Diana and her friend James Gilbey was taped . ’
13 The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago .
14 A nurse from Gloucestershire has been killed in a road accident just two days after emigrating to America .
15 ‘ Well , Frank , what is your mission appointment going to be ’ ? asked the Superior General just two weeks before my ordination .
16 Her visit follows the announcement just two days ago that the dockyard is to be privatised .
17 Irina Shchukin took out two suits in a Paris court just two days after the Matisse exhibition opened in Paris on 24 February .
18 She has given $7,000 ( £4,400 ) towards the cost of a new fire engine , which is housed at the Old Saybrook Fire Station just two miles away from her home in Fenwick off the shore of the Long Island Sound .
19 Losing Dooley would be a major setback just two weeks away from the historic international against South Africa at Twickenham .
20 HUNGARIAN reformers narrowly averted a fatal split last night just two days after the birth of their new Socialist Party when they elected a compromise leadership .
21 NICOLA Fairbrother was last night just two seconds away from winning an Olympic title .
22 NICOLA Fairbrother was last night just two seconds away from winning an Olympic gold medal .
23 This birdie on the 4th helped her complete the first round just two over .
24 ‘ I ca n't buy this , ’ she 'd protested to her cousin just two days ago .
25 Full-back Denis Irwin rescued United with a blistering angled drive just two minutes later .
26 TWO planes used by the financially troubled Paramount Airways will remain grounded over the weekend after the Court of Appeal last night overturned a court ruling just two hours before freeing the aircraft .
27 Sad Michael , who died of liver cancer at 27 , was lashed with leather thongs in front of a packed audience at a West End Theatre just two days before joining the show .
28 Today 's run in a handicap is a step up in class , but David Chapman , who trains at Stillington , North Yorkshire , has clearly brought about a change in the colt 's attitude since acquiring him from a Lambourn yard just two months ago .
29 Charles had had his fifteenth birthday just two months before , reaching the Frankish age of majority .
30 Yet again England were indebted to Platt , who celebrated his 27th birthday just two days ago and has been restricted to the bench by an ankle injury .
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