Example sentences of "two [adv prt] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By February 1940 he had drafted two out of the five sections , and was describing the poem as a successor to " Burnt Norton " — he was still not at all sure of its worth , however , since he seemed only to be imitating himself . |
| 2 | It must surely be significant that in an age when the evidence for women as writers is so sparse , two out of the five writers here discussed are women and that both present their spirituality nourished by physical debility , coloured by gender-specific terms , and very evidently rooted in the affective piety stimulated by the visual iconography of the Incarnation ; although both found these to be factors which precipitated their experience of transcendent being and for Julian , in particular , they triggered her sense of that which is ineffable . |
| 3 | The investment management division of the firm took two out of the five distinctions among 618 candidates in the UK . |
| 4 | Doyle 's team won two out of the four Championship matches in ‘ 87 ( in hindsight , a herculean achievement ) but the team lost its way at the World Cup . |
| 5 | It cleaned up the European Car of the Year award for 1992 against some formidable competition , though only two out of the seven British judges gave it top ranking . |
| 6 | Possession of even two out of the three characteristics made continued home care unlikely , but we shall confine our attention here to those who possessed all three in order to look as exclusively as possible at those for whom the Home Support Project 's service was crucial . |
| 7 | ‘ Two out of the three are away at college — I have n't missed them much yet . |
| 8 | Two out of the three patients have been discharged cured , and the third remains in the House in a state of convalescence recovered already beyond the probability of danger , and likely soon to become an active and useful member of society . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | and can you make it so that two out of the three can deal with it . |
| 11 | A US company , Admiralty Pacific , touches two out of the three environmental bases , in making an offer to the Marshall Islanders in the Pacific . |
| 12 | In terms of cold statistics for Ireland to win two out of the three matches against the other Home Countries and only have two players out of a party of 30 seems very harsh . |
| 13 | Two out of the three instances ( " I don " t believe any of that … " ( p. 71 ) and " How could I have told him that ? |
| 14 | That will generate two out of the three things we want , that 's the contract and the cheque all right ? |