Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six salmon were reported from the River Moy for the week while both the Druncliffe River and the Ballisodare River each produced two salmon to rod and line . |
| 2 | But all this changed two years back . |
| 3 | This involved two weeks ’ full work , including the use of a helicopter . |
| 4 | This involved two weeks of solid driving through the Amazon rainforest in appalling conditions — there were continual problems with mud , water and basically the lack of any discernible road ! |
| 5 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 6 | This served two purposes , firstly the importance of the problems was diminished when they were written down ( even the most depressed person could not resist a smile when they wrote down some of their worries — somehow they looked silly on paper ) and , secondly , it enabled them to delete items on the list when the problems were solved , thereby proving that most problems were capable of being solved . |
| 7 | This served two purposes . |
| 8 | The Committee believed that this raised two issues for consideration . |
| 9 | This raised two issues for consideration in the Court of Appeal . |
| 10 | April 20 and 22 brought two evening missions , with all aircraft airborne by 1620 and 1630 hours respectively . |
| 11 | This took two Saturdays . |
| 12 | There were no other forecasts , but the 0700 weather at Vigo was all right , which meant that we could possibly divert there , although this presented two problems for use as an alternate : our endurance would not leave safe reserves on arrival , and it was in Spain . |
| 13 | Above all , however , the French had two objectives . |
| 14 | This had two vices ; the common law concept was vague , and it seems highly likely that the offence was sometimes used to prevent nuisances of a relatively minor kind not aimed at by Parliament . |
| 15 | This suggested two elements of concern in the existing system . |
| 16 | Each interviewed two people . |
| 17 | Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 involved two cases of price label switching in a supermarket . |
| 18 | It was a decisive victory for the Americans : the Japanese lost two battleships , four aircraft carriers , eight cruisers and numerous destroyers . |
| 19 | Such grabbed two wickets in Lancashire 's second innings to justify a bold declaration by Graham Gooch . |
| 20 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 21 | In the 840s , for instance , Charles the Bald elicited two treatises on the real presence of Christ in the eucharist , one ( a reissue of an earlier work ) from Paschasius Radbertus , abbot of Corbie , which stressed transubstantiation and the corporeal presence ; the other from Ratramnus , a monk of Corbie , with a very different emphasis . |
| 22 | These had two components : the commitment to the Commonwealth , and the notion of a special Anglo-American relationship . |
| 23 | A survey of the middle reaches of the river Idle in Nottinghamshire in 1980 discovered two clumps of marginal plants and three trees over five miles of river . |
| 24 | Wilson Mark II contributed two innovations to the practice of Cabinet government , both on the public-expenditure side . |
| 25 | US District Judge William Hodges on Feb. 5 ordered two subsidiaries of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) to forfeit more than $15,000,000 for their role in the laundering of huge cocaine profits from Colombia 's Medellín drug cartel . |
| 26 | A 200-kg. car bomb-attack on Nov. 18 killed two people and wounded 10 in the Miraflores district , scene of a major bomb explosion in July [ see p. 39002 ] . |
| 27 | Study 5 had two conditions , one set of drivers described fully all the salient information in a film , a second set of drivers described specifically the types of risks that were present in the film . |
| 28 | Official delegations from Japan and North Korea on Nov. 4 ended two days of exploratory talks in Beijing aimed at the establishment of diplomatic relations . |
| 29 | May 23 and 25 brought two missions in France . |
| 30 | June 1930 saw two Iris IIIs ( S1263 and S1264 ) flying from Plymouth to Iceland ( Reykjavik ) as part of the ceremony to mark the 1,000th anniversary of the Icelandic Parliament . |