Example sentences of "place two " in BNC.

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1 The bar was crowded with men coming off shift from the electronics factory all arguing heatedly about a disputed penalty in a soccer match being shown on a T.V. set above the counter , the fact that the match had taken place two months before in no way diminishing the fervour of the argument .
2 By 1852 Bunhill Fields was almost full ; indeed , the last interment there took place two years later .
3 We followed him across the street and down crumbling cement stairs into a fetid basement that stank of excrement , a place two feet deep in sodden papers , envelopes , parcels and stained government forms .
4 In a debate on science in the House of Commons last week , Clarke argued that level funding next year was justified by big rises in the past , ‘ especially the big 8 per cent uplift which took place two years ago ’ .
5 That had taken place two years ago , in Trebizond ; and had celebrated the Feast of St Eugenios , not St Nicholas ; and instead of James , Dei gratia Jerusalem , Cypri et Armenie rex illustrissimus , the chief celebrant had been the dead Vice-Regent of Christ , David Comnenos , twenty-first Emperor of Trebizond , accompanied by his Grand Chancellor and betrayer , George Amiroutzes .
6 It was a real nice place two years ago ; nothing but luxury houses for the super-rich , but then the snakes bought it and they 've painted a big yellow cross on their runway .
7 This mesmerising son et lumière actually takes place two floors up in a domed planetarium at the Cité De Science , a futuristic and eerily empty complex in the Parisian outskirts chosen by The Orb 's French label Delabel as an ideal launch pad for ‘ UF Orb ’ .
8 She arrived too late for the actual ceremony , so another took place two days later , on Palm Sunday , when she placed a gold circlet on the head of King Robert I.
9 Montaine 's suicide had taken place two and a half years ago .
10 She watched Victor place two tall , white , tapered candles under delicate , hand-cut , antique glass hurricane covers , and carefully fold starched Irish linen napkins monogrammed with the initials C.S.
11 ‘ Within the main sett , the badgers moved around an awful lot , rarely sleeping in the same place two nights running . ’
12 But Stripey rarely chose to sleep in the same place two nights running .
13 The financial details of the transaction to which the hon. Member referred , and which bear no resemblance to those that he described , took place two years after my noble Friend left the Government .
14 Losing his international place two years ago was also a major blow .
15 The election was timed to take place two days after presentation of the 1990-91 budget [ see below ] .
16 In his place two new young joint chairs were elected , Walter Silbermayr ( formerly a party secretary ) and Susanne Sohn .
17 Delivery takes place two business days after the last trading day , the standard settlement period in the foreign exchange market .
18 Meantime we wish you a very happy nineteen ninety two , our warmest wishes Carole and Ian P S Julian bought his own place two years ago .
19 Getting supplies to this place two hundred miles out of Amman has also proved a nightmare .
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