Example sentences of "[num ord] two days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was lost on the first two days and then the Saturday was washed out altogether , so it was Monday before Lloyd was able to complete his first Test hundred at his adopted home , in what many thought would be his last opportunity . |
| 2 | Here we go again , said everyone , and they were right ; on the first two days there had been plenty of cloud to help the bowlers , but on the Saturday the sun shone and West Indies made the most of it . |
| 3 | Besides Andy Adams , robbed by a broken leg of the winning ride on Party Politics , three other jockeys Anthony Tory ( Docklands Express ) , Adrian Maguire ( Cool Ground ) and Mark Perrett ( Rubika ) were painfully put out of action on the first two days . |
| 4 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 5 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
| 6 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 7 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 8 | The first two days at ‘ The Pickeridge ’ I spent in my room , with my meals brought up by Ada , the housemaid , and being visited by Lady Shelley . |
| 9 | They seemed to be settling in well in the first two days . |
| 10 | ‘ As these first two days dragged on I began to realise that there was no hope of saving my arm . |
| 11 | Most confessions at the police holding centres have been signed during the first two days of custody . |
| 12 | It had over 20 performances in Vienna alone , and brought Mozart 1,200 florins in the first two days . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ How much of your clobber will you need for your first two days ? ’ |
| 15 | So the first two days must be spent tethered in solitary confinement . |
| 16 | If the first two days were this good , what of Denver 's Gothic Theatre , New York 's Roseland or Salt Lake City 's 20,000 capacity Delta Center ? |
| 17 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 18 | Except for the first two days , the decaying component is well fitted by an exponential with 18-day time constant , but we now see that the glitch also leaves a nondecaying increase in rotation rate . |
| 19 | Jack Mason had continued in his untroubled and uninspired vein of the first two days and had finished way down the field . |
| 20 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
| 21 | I worked in the garden for the first two days . |
| 22 | The programme provided for the discussion of various topics on the first two days , as told in the preceding chapter , and for Saturday , January 18 , it read : Proposal to form the National Deaf Association , on the American lines , the objects of which will be the protection , and the educational and social elevation of the deaf of the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | Two days on the Health and Safety at Work Act , which we can probably do without , because if we can pass the exam before we go on the course then we do n't need to do those first two days . |
| 24 | It was a large basement , with no street-level exposure , and although sales for the first two days were excitingly high , the next few months were a disaster . |
| 25 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 26 | The first two days were spent in and around Jerusalem with the first poignant moment being the walk down the Mount of Olives with its magnificent views over the old city . |
| 27 | Their games will be at Jordanstown for the first two days , with games being shared between Jordanstown and Valley on the final day . |
| 28 | ‘ For the first two days we just go to bed . |
| 29 | Over the first two days most of the home points had been garnered by the Big Four comprising Seve Ballesteros , Jose Maria Olazabal , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam but in the end it was the third Spaniard and the middle-aged Irishman who rose to the occasion when their contribution was needed most . |
| 30 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |