Example sentences of "two [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl Aarvold , later a judge , scored two Lions ' tries and Doug Prentice , later secretary of the Rugby Union , converted them . |
| 2 | the convictions of ( 1 ) the person who took off his clothes in one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square ; ( 2 ) the persons who shouted ‘ Remember Biafra ’ during the two minutes ' silence at the 1969 Remembrance Day ceremony in Whitehall ; and ( 3 ) the person who painted the word ‘ Jews ’ in two foot high letters on the garden wall of a house occupied by a Jewish family , the father of whom had been a prisoner at Dachau . |
| 3 | The Oxford Union is situated right in the centre of Oxford , two minutes ' walk from Carfax , in St Michael 's Street , which leads off Cornmarket Street . |
| 4 | The Mill Theatre is on the Oxford Canal , two minutes ' walk from Banbury Town Hall and the Bus Station . |
| 5 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
| 6 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 7 | The Indian team observed two minutes ' silence before the Perth Test . |
| 8 | No more than two minutes ' flying time later , we can reconfirm our position from the high ( 200ft ) power lines crossing a main road immediately underneath us . |
| 9 | He drew the nut grove in the Lamonts ' garden and the surrounding countryside , especially the view over the Weald found within two minutes ' walk from their house . |
| 10 | At each visit blood pressure was recorded twice after five minutes ' lying down , a radial pulse being measured between readings , and blood pressure and radial pulse were recorded after two minutes ' standing . |
| 11 | The house is in the centre of the city , on the edge of the Park , two minutes ' walk from the best shops and the square where all the dropouts and drug-addicts meet . |
| 12 | It 's two minutes ' walk across the Park from the sombre baronial building where he has his office ; there 's no point in not living centrally now the children are away at school . |
| 13 | Greenacres Gardens , a new cul-de-sac development in Walthamstow , offers studios and one- and two-bedroom flats , just two minutes ' walk from Wood Street BR station . |
| 14 | It is not available in the first year of the policy and in the second year only £250 — about two hours ' worth for a top London matrimonial lawyer -will be met for each party . |
| 15 | She had to work night and day and survive on two hours ' sleep . |
| 16 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 17 | I was staying with a Filipino family on Mindanao , one of the southernmost of the 7,000 Philippine islands , two hours ' flying time from Manila , in a place called Dapitan City in the province of Zamboanga del Norte . |
| 18 | For full grant to be earned , One-Year courses extended over twenty-four weeks , each meeting of two hours ' duration with an equal division between instruction and class activity . |
| 19 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |
| 20 | Blair and I also walked out to another , superb loch where we had splendid sport , Scarilode ; about two hours ' walk along a good track from Market Stance , past Rueval , where Charles Edward Stewart lay waiting for Flora Macdonald , prior to his flight from the Hebrides . |
| 21 | Axeen rewrote the material that she used in her course ‘ Teaching the use of the library to undergraduates ’ in fourteen units of instruction , each requiring two hours ' use of the terminal . |
| 22 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 23 | Lockhart 's flight became lost and returned to the carrier , then set off again with two hours ' fuel already gone . |
| 24 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 25 | The marvellous historic and cultural cities of Edinburgh , Berwick-on-Tweed , and Glasgow are under two hours ' drive away . |
| 26 | Clients who are assessed as needing a home cleaning service receive vouchers once a month , each representing one or two hours ' worth of cleaning . |
| 27 | The new gold rush revolves round the so-called Mother Lode , in the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada , about two hours ' drive from San Francisco . |
| 28 | The subscription of £38 a year covers the call-out charge , two hours ' labour , and up to ‘ 250 for parts . |
| 29 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
| 30 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |