Below you will find example sentences with "past two". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Past Two in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: past
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.9 words

Words in this phrase

past two

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • past can mean: The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. Common word
  • two can mean: A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

over the past two decades and 2× for the past two and possibly 1× for the past two months and 1× for the past two years there 1× in his past two games adams 1× in the past two seasons 1× in the past two weeks 1× in the past two years 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

although he didn 1× dahal has accused 1× he led the 1× however liverpool and 1× in the past 1× of course this 1×

Common sentence endings:

past two years 2× and economic change 1× been turned away 1× come to fruition 1× de blasio said 1× in his waistband 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

years 8× seasons 5× games 4× change 4× year 4× decades 3× yards 3× weeks 3× teams 3× men 3× played 2× great 2×

Related phrases

two weeks two daughters two years two goals two touchdowns two seasons two sides rating two two assists two decades

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around past:

past year 17× past week 15× past years 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

past mistakes past few past decade passion fruit passing yards passing touchdowns

Just after it in the phrase index:

past week past year past years pastry chef patient care patient outcomes

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

past decade past year past few past week past mistakes past years

Same ending:

rating two scored two phase two division two bbc two round two

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "past two" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as over the past two decades and, for the past two and possibly, years, seasons and games stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with two weeks, two daughters, two years, past year, past week and past years, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with past two

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The past several weeks have been like the past two years in miniature. (13 words)

Every second of the past two and a half minutes - of the past 20 years - has been for this. (19 words)

In the past three months it made repeated three-year highs, before backing off in the past two weeks. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

With five TDs in his past two games, Adams has a sky-high TD dependency (45.55%), and that rate is primed to increase in Week 9 against the 49ers, a team that has allowed seven receiving TDs over the past three weeks. (43 words)

The winner came after Lionel Messi dribbled past two defenders down the right flank and found Suarez with an inside pass. The Uruguay striker’s first touch took the ball past Diego Godín and he slotted home a left-footed finish. (41 words)

The most popular activities recently have been 5-on-5 basketball with over forty teams entered for the past three years, for the past two years there have been over thirty indoor flag football teams and teams have been turned away. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

We’ve played some great cricket over the past two years, firstly to get to this situation to play a final against India who have also been exceptional over the past two years.

Virginia has won just 3 games in each of the past two seasons and they have won only three total ACC games in the past two seasons.

The TAR said, "The combined change in radiative forcing of the two major natural factors (solar variation and volcanic aerosols) is estimated to be negative for the past two, and possibly the past four, decades".

He led the Irish in receiving yards the past two seasons, notching 67 catches for 809 yards and nine touchdowns this past season.

While the offensive output hasn’t been great the past couple of games (both wins, ironically), the team needed the past two wins, and despite imperfections, they grabbed them.

Dahal has accused Oli of not respecting past agreements to hand over the party leadership to him, while Oli says Dahal has tried to undermine his government every step of the way in the past two years.

Every second of the past two and a half minutes - of the past 20 years - has been for this.

Here’s just a small sampling of the laundry list of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and unacceptable—that have been heaped upon us by the government over the past two decades and in the past year, in particular.

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Of course, this change began very long ago, but it has escalated beyond imagination over the past two decades, and in this past year alone, the idea of a society based on total voluntary servitude has seemingly come to fruition.

Researchers have shown that over the past two thousand years, volcanoes have played a larger role in natural temperature variability than previously thought, and their climatic effects may have contributed to past societal and economic change.

The city’s rate has remained below 3 percent for the past two months, and was 1% in the past day, de Blasio said.

With five TDs in his past two games, Adams has a sky-high TD dependency (45.55%), and that rate is primed to increase in Week 9 against the 49ers, a team that has allowed seven receiving TDs over the past three weeks.

Although he didn’t made it past 800 yards in either of his past two seasons with Tampa Bay, that could change this year in his return to Philadelphia.

In the past three months it made repeated three-year highs, before backing off in the past two weeks.

The winner came after Lionel Messi dribbled past two defenders down the right flank and found Suarez with an inside pass. The Uruguay striker’s first touch took the ball past Diego Godín and he slotted home a left-footed finish.

The DOW has “plunged” over the past three days around 1,000 points over the past two days, falling especially sharply a moment after Donald Trump made comments about adding trade tariffs to steel and aluminum.

The past several weeks have been like the past two years in miniature.

The most popular activities recently have been 5-on-5 basketball with over forty teams entered for the past three years, for the past two years there have been over thirty indoor flag football teams and teams have been turned away.

However, Liverpool and Manchester City have established themselves as the top-two sides in the Premier League over the past two seasons, leaving Chelsea and United to battle for the two remaining places in the top four.

When two officers on patrol drove past two men on Ledge Street about 9:30 p.m., the two men separated quickly, with one of the men grabbing protectively at a “weighted” object in his waistband.

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