In the two preceding years, shipment growth had exceeded 20%.
But this is what the voters elected Labour to do - not just in 2005, but in the two preceding elections.
Breaking with the practice of the two preceding administrations, he adopted a hands-off policy toward the Federal Reserve Board.
For example, you can select the two preceding sentences in this article by saying "select it was through command period".
It is particularly well embodied in the striking contrast between Friday's events and those after the two preceding wars.
(Terms in the sequence are the sum of the two preceding terms, so the next term here is 13).
Mathematicians, however, can see that Leonardo's rabbits produce a very special sequence of numbers in which each equals the sum of the two preceding in the series.
Sometimes it's a choice of program A or program B. With the Boston Symphony Orchestra, never -- inevitably it's in Carnegie Hall the two preceding evenings.
Made on a much smaller budget, Precious is a simpler, tougher work than the two preceding films and altogether more effective.
And it missed its goals in the two preceding years: narrowly in 1998, and then badly in 1999, when it fell short by 6,291 recruits.
This stands in marked contrast to the powers of the two preceding Presidents, whose interventions in foreign affairs were often undercut or stymied from above.
