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The phrase "are only two explanations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when presenting a limited number of possible reasons or interpretations for a situation or phenomenon.
Example: "After analyzing the data, I concluded that there are only two explanations for the discrepancy in the results."
Alternatives: "there exist only two explanations" or "there are merely two explanations".
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There are only two explanations.
There are only two explanations, he says.
And there are only two explanations for that expectation.
I think there are only two explanations for this weird power of Blair's.
"But there are only two explanations: Either they don't understand how the program works, which is hard to imagine, or there is some deliberate misrepresentation here because they know how politically potent this charge is".
According to White House chief of staff John Kelly, there are only two explanations for why people failed to sign up for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program: They were either "too afraid" or "too lazy".
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There could be only one explanation: the Brian Cox effect.
"There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one," he said.
They knew that there could be only one explanation: a levee break upstream.
To Mr. Parmigiani, there was only one explanation: someone inside his own research department had tipped off the firm's traders, as well as some fast-money hedge funds.
Given the number of besieged and battered cities there have been in however many thousands of years of pitiless warfare there is only one explanation for this invocation of Warsaw before any of those – it is to wound Jews in their recent and most anguished history and to punish them with their own grief.
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