| Shaggy yaks stomp around threshing circles, ears of barley are thrashed with sticks and winnowed by singing villagers in twos and threes. |
| That was certainly once true of America's newspapers, which in a big country are distributed by city, almost invariably in ones or twos. |
| But for many called up, they were just sent in ones and twos to reserve or active duty units. |
| He mostly takes people out in groups of ones and twos, and normally it's in a wide-open space. |
| We all take our time, dawdling across in twos and threes until some poor car has been sitting there for five minutes. |
| Organising on the job was difficult as it involved chasing up members in ones and twos and having to go back to the job if a member was off sick. |
