Example sentences of "have been two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I seem to remember there have been two attempts , one at John F. Kennedy , the other at Heathrow to smuggle bombs aboard planes .
2 There have been two attempts to reduce human resources to this form of measurement ( Giles and Robinson , 1972 ) .
3 However , there have been two case reports of haemolytic crises caused by ascorbic acid .
4 I think that , if we concentrate on trade first , there have been two trends , operating simultaneously :
5 THERE have been two instances recently where populist concepts of health and illness — much derided by doctors — have been partially vindicated .
6 Nearly all the records are for the period December to March with a distinct peak in February , but there have been two April records since 1947 , one for May ( 2nd , 1956 , Rye ) , one for October ( 16th , 1969 , Pevensey ) , and one for 13 November 1971 in the Adur Levels ; there are also two old records for November .
7 However there have been two periods of pantograph operation on a limited scale : from 1927–33 and again from 1974 .
8 Thus there have been two periods of renewal and change ; during 1971–76 and again between 1984–90 .
9 And there have been two burglaries in Bicester ; last night a Ford truck was stolen and ten and a half thousand pounds ' worth of roofing was stolen from a roofing supply store .
10 There have been two studies of the maturity-volume relationship for index futures .
11 There have been two benefactors of note .
12 There have been two battles at Islip during the English Civil War , in 1644 and 1645 , which both resulted in Royalist defeats .
13 Broadly , there have been two ways of ‘ going modular ’ , each with several internal dimensions and variables .
14 There have been two disappointments since then , but we need to build on it . ’
15 There have been two fires in the troubled Kozloduy reactor in Bulgaria .
16 There have been two strikes here , that 's true .
17 Since it was signed on January 29th there have been two massacres , with a total of at least 30 people killed .
18 During this probationary term there have been two training Saturdays in South London and a residential weekend in Buckinghamshire .
19 Otherwise there have been two possibilities which effectively continue the lines of descent from Hegelian historicism and the history of science .
20 Fiscal stability and governmental co-operation have been two features of the tax regime in the past which have encouraged investment in the UK . ’
21 There have been two additions to his life since I left .
22 We have been two months in producing this very complicated set of regulations .
23 Mr John Hammond , design director , said : ‘ Until recently there have been two sides to our business namely furniture manufacture at our Cockfield site and retailing from our Darlington showrooms .
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