Example sentences of "[adj] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to some of its Washington hosts , notably Republicans then in power , the development of a classical style led to an uninterrupted two millennia of democracy which culminated in the collapse of the Berlin Wall , a political subtext to the exhibition which the Met has jettisoned entirely . |
| 2 | The effect of exciting two phases at any time is illustrated in Fig. 3.4(b) , in which the three static torque/rotor position characteristics for phases AB , BC and CA excited are obtained by summing the torque contributions from each phase at every rotor position . |
| 3 | For the most risky two exemplars , films 53 and 54 , the corrected hit rate is very high , for the least risky exemplars of the same junction , films 50 and 51 , corrected hit rate is extremely low . |
| 4 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |
| 5 | ‘ I was widowed two years ago — you know that . |
| 6 | Outsider Vert Amande kept St Jovite out of third , with old rival Dr Devious two places behind . |
| 7 | Dixon was sentenced to seven years for the rape and a concurrent two years for an unrelated theft . |
| 8 | All unary operations ( such as negate ) are performed on the top element of the stack , and binary operations are performed on the top two elements of the stack ( after which they are removed ) and the result placed on the top of the stack . |
| 9 | Only the top two elements of the stack are ( for speed ) held in processor registers A and B. Operands are added to the top of the stack by being placed in A , whose contents ( if any ) are moved to B. The remainder of a process 's stack is a vector of contiguous store locations . |
| 10 | THE top two executives at pharmaceuticals group SmithKline Beecham yesterday emerged as the highest paid duo in a major British quoted company . |
| 11 | Earlier this month the top two executives at Walt Disney cashed in a record $253 million worth of personal share options . |
| 12 | WordPerfect is entirely owned by its top two executives , but is considering going public later this year or in 1994 . |
| 13 | Solar-powered house in Europe : BP Solar has established itself as one of the top two suppliers of photovoltaics in Europe . |
| 14 | His hand , a freckled ham , was missing the top two joints from the index finger . |
| 15 | The top two semitones , B ♯ and C are , however , rather difficult to produce and should only used at the end of an upward-rushing ff scale . |
| 16 | I think it 's significant that on page one eight six of our , of the blue book , we report four sentenc for er lines from the top two presbyteries expressed a desire for the whole practice of infant baptism to be re-examined , only two presbyteries . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , that 's good though , and I ca n't read the top two lines ! |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll take two pieces of bone from your pelvis and wire them to the top two vertebrae and your skull , ’ he said.d . |
| 19 | Owing to the curvature of the bridge , the top two notes only of a three- or four-part chord can be sustained . |
| 20 | The area between the top two profiles is the totally hypothetical cost of being female ; it is the same order of magnitude as the hypothetical cost of a woman becoming a mother . |
| 21 | So it 's page fifty six and the prep was er the top two boxes and the bottom . |
| 22 | In the album charts , the foursome also grab the top two positions with ‘ Meet The Beatles ’ ( 1 ) and ‘ Introducing The Beatles ’ ( 2 ) . |
| 23 | This caused some concern to all present as the top two positions were now held by Scots . |
| 24 | The council has rotated the top two positions between the SDLP and Ulster Unionist since 1973 . |
| 25 | With their eyes on entering the 1995 World Cup qualifiers in the Asia/Pacific Zone ( the top two teams in September 's tournament will automatically qualify ) Taiwan are pinning their hopes on a two-week visit to Wellington , New Zealand . |
| 26 | In the first division the top two teams would play off at Twickenham for the county title . |
| 27 | Nobody expected anyone to get their leg broken but one would have thought that the top two teams in the country could have contributed more in terms of effort , flair and excitement . |
| 28 | The open chord of E minor would have the 7th at the top and then if you play A7 , you get the D and C sharp between the top two strings — that 's a really nice quality , I love that . ’ |
| 29 | Playing open chords around the bottom frets feels fine ; the top two strings have been left a little high at the nut , but the E , A , D and G are perfect . |
| 30 | Carefully carve a slanted roof shape into the top two cakes , sloping down evenly on either side . |