Example sentences of "two [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each visit blood pressure was recorded twice after five minutes ' lying down , a radial pulse being measured between readings , and blood pressure and radial pulse were recorded after two minutes ' standing . |
| 2 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 3 | the convictions of ( 1 ) the person who took off his clothes in one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square ; ( 2 ) the persons who shouted ‘ Remember Biafra ’ during the two minutes ' silence at the 1969 Remembrance Day ceremony in Whitehall ; and ( 3 ) the person who painted the word ‘ Jews ’ in two foot high letters on the garden wall of a house occupied by a Jewish family , the father of whom had been a prisoner at Dachau . |
| 4 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
| 5 | The Indian team observed two minutes ' silence before the Perth Test . |
| 6 | The Oxford Union is situated right in the centre of Oxford , two minutes ' walk from Carfax , in St Michael 's Street , which leads off Cornmarket Street . |
| 7 | The Mill Theatre is on the Oxford Canal , two minutes ' walk from Banbury Town Hall and the Bus Station . |
| 8 | He drew the nut grove in the Lamonts ' garden and the surrounding countryside , especially the view over the Weald found within two minutes ' walk from their house . |
| 9 | The house is in the centre of the city , on the edge of the Park , two minutes ' walk from the best shops and the square where all the dropouts and drug-addicts meet . |
| 10 | It 's two minutes ' walk across the Park from the sombre baronial building where he has his office ; there 's no point in not living centrally now the children are away at school . |
| 11 | Greenacres Gardens , a new cul-de-sac development in Walthamstow , offers studios and one- and two-bedroom flats , just two minutes ' walk from Wood Street BR station . |
| 12 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 13 | The Green Form scheme will provide two hours ' work by a solicitor on a case ( more with an extension ) , but the solicitor can not recover the cost of appearing before a tribunal to argue a case under this component of legal aid . |
| 14 | I hid the inch of yellow knitting , which represented two hours ' work , under my chair , tipped the lampshade to a more discreet angle , and called , " Come in . " |
| 15 | After two hours ' work , I had managed only to hack out a shallow hole hardly large enough to bury a tortoise . |
| 16 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 17 | She had to work night and day and survive on two hours ' sleep . |
| 18 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 19 | Livings took a bare two hours ' sleep that night . |
| 20 | The marvellous historic and cultural cities of Edinburgh , Berwick-on-Tweed , and Glasgow are under two hours ' drive away . |
| 21 | The new gold rush revolves round the so-called Mother Lode , in the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada , about two hours ' drive from San Francisco . |
| 22 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
| 23 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |
| 24 | to give two hours ' warning before a visit to their capital , so that people could stay indoors |
| 25 | It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language . |
| 26 | The subscription of £38 a year covers the call-out charge , two hours ' labour , and up to ‘ 250 for parts . |
| 27 | All-year-round protection costs £60 , and that covers the cost of the call-out , the first two hours ' labour and up to £10 of materials on each job . |
| 28 | do n't start me on that , I 'll be doing it in about two hours ' time . |
| 29 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |
| 30 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |