Example sentences of "[conj] two out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put one or two out of their misery by introducing them to a cup of coffee and my insides , not necessarily in that order . |
| 2 | Oh we just take a bite or two out of them , say the parents . |
| 3 | The section on Italian animals is particularly interesting to visitors intending to spend a day or two out of town . |
| 4 | Assuming that one in 10 were severe reactions — experience suggests the ratio would be much lower — that implies a total of 318 500 reactions , or two out of every three patients . |
| 5 | ‘ I rather hope I may get those concerned to invite me to do you in the Authors and their Work series — though I have n't done anything about it — I might then like to quote a bit or two out of a letter ( e.g. about Ivy ) , but I devoutly hope you will be able to censor the thing for yourself ’ — for there was still hope , or I was allowed to think so . |
| 6 | Even Mira is within range for only a month or two out of its total period of 331 days ; at minimum it sinks to magnitude 10 , so that it is lost even with a small telescope . |
| 7 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 8 | Still most of them will have picked up a bob or two out of their transfers to Leeds . |
| 9 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 10 | ‘ Corked ’ wine has a powerful pong , rather like musty , mouldy walnuts , and current estimates hold that two out of every 100 bottles are affected . |
| 11 | THE recruitment and image crisis facing British industry was cruelly exposed yesterday by a report which revealed that two out of three university engineering students graduating this year decided against a career in engineering . |
| 12 | THE recruitment and image crisis facing British industry was cruelly exposed yesterday by a report which revealed that two out of three university engineering students graduating this year decided against a career in engineering . |
| 13 | It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it . |
| 14 | Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded . |
| 15 | It is remarkable that two out of the three patients here described are children under the age of 10 years whose grievous sufferings commenced almost with their birth and would in all probability have continued to their death had not this infirmary been established . ’ |
| 16 | I finally ran a copy to earth , with some difficulty , at Penguin 's own bookshop in Covent Garden , and telephone enquiries to a selection of London 's larger booksellers indicated that two out of three had at least one copy on their shelves . |
| 17 | and can you make it so that two out of the three can deal with it . |
| 18 | But is may not be an accident that two out of the last three large , completed bids have ended up as tender offers , not full-scale takeovers . |
| 19 | A report claims that two out of three teachers undertaking their first primary school job are not confident in their ability to teach reading . |
| 20 | A London clinic specialising in reversal operations said yesterday that more than six out of 10 operations are now successful compared with fewer than two out of 10 only three or four years ago . |
| 21 | More than two out of every five Britons say they buy products on environmental grounds — over double the number who did so in 1988 . |
| 22 | Less than two out of five applicants actually gained entry . |
| 23 | Around the world today , more than 100 countries still retain the death penalty , and two out of every three human beings live under governments that use torture and other cruel , inhuman and degrading treatment against them . |
| 24 | Still , three guides out of three made it to the col between the two summits , and two out of three to the summit itself , while only one client out of 15 was present . |
| 25 | And two out of three are girls . ’ |
| 26 | Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% . |
| 27 | But when it 's dark and the moon glints on the Peter and Paul fortress , and two out of every three street lights are extinguished for economy so that the puddles and newly fallen snow are discovered only by an errant foot , then it is once again St Petersburg , and Dostoevsky is hump-backed in a slum behind Sennaya Square , and Pushkin is dying after his duel and saying ‘ Good-bye , my friends ’ to his rows of books . |
| 28 | The range of speakers , sizes of groups and value of Richard Holloway as a keynote speaker were all praised , and two out of three participants said that they would attend a similar event again . |
| 29 | One individual out of every 100 will be killed in a road accident , the report claims , and two out of every three injured . |
| 30 | Today , half of the dwellings you see around you were built after the Second World War and two out of three are owner-occupied . |