Two of the newer trends in the genre are books with a split setting ( i. e., a modern story framing action that occurs in one or more past settings ) and books where all of the action occurs in the present but the puzzle to be solved is all about elements from the past.

Two noteworthy trends in Renaissance humanism were Renaissance Neo-Platonism and Hermeticism, which through the works of figures like Nicholas of Kues, Giordano Bruno, Cornelius Agrippa, Campanella and Pico della Mirandola sometimes came close to constituting a new religion itself.

Two distinct trends can be found in the nahda period of revival.

Two stylistic trends are evident in his music: the style of the Burgundian School, which he seems to have learned in his early career before coming to Italy, and the lighter style of the Italian composers current at the time, who were writing frottolas ( the light and popular predecessor to the madrigal ).

Two trends led to the formation of AKP ( m-l ):

Two conflicting trends emerged in the development of the slit lamp.

Two distinct trends can be seen in the development of accommodation.

If ... is a series of BBC drama-documentaries broadcast on BBC Two from March to April 2004 and December 2004 to January 2005, each of which considers the potentially catastrophic political or social consequences that might arise from current trends in the United Kingdom.

Two general evolutionary trends can be recognized.

Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

Two gas lamps were no more than a misleading glow.

Two men he did not recognize were sipping coffee and munching sweet rolls.

Two hundred and nineteen were received from 35 of our 50 United States and 11 came from foreign countries.

Two special issues were published, one for November 1959 on Space Medicine, the other the Tenth Anniversary issue for January 1960.

Two friends were talking.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.

Two other end-use areas which contributed to expandable styrene's growth during the year were packaging ( molded inserts replacing complicated cardboard units ) and foamed-core building panels.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

Two bequests were recorded: one of $200 under the will of Mrs. Harriet A. Copp of Los Angeles ; ;

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

Two tax revision bills were passed.

Two other cases also were under advisement.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

Two were in the same band 18 years ago ; ;

Two late Sonatas, Op. 110 and 111, were played with similar insight, the disarming simplicities of the Op. 111 Adagio made plain without ever becoming obvious.

Two other Japanese girls were sitting at the tables, both quite pretty and well groomed.

Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were located in Anatolia: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

Two chiefly important monk philosophers were Sengzhao and Daosheng.

Two million years ago, the only sign of fire is burnt earth with human remains, which most other anthropologists consider to be mere coincidence rather than evidence of intentional fire.

Two thirds of patients with laparoscopic evidence of previous PID were not aware they had PID.

" Two undercover policewomen and two undercover policemen had entered the bar earlier that evening to gather visual evidence, as the Public Morals Squad waited outside for the signal.

Two investigations, one a post-war official investigation, and the other an independent investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, concluded that there was no evidence to support the story.

Two years later, in 1896, evidence came to light identifying a French Army major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy as the real culprit.

Two of the accused turned state's evidence in exchange for having the charges against them dropped.

Two of the soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter because there was overwhelming evidence that they fired directly into the crowd.

Two items of place-name evidence also attest to Maponos in Britain.

Two more branches showing evidence of being Mongolic are the Murong ( included in the core of the Xianbei during Tanshihuai's reign ) and the Tuoba.

Two 19th century histories of the town of Milan and Dutchess County ( 1877 and 1882 ) state there is no knowledge or evidence as to why the name " Milan " was chosen.

The culture of Walden Two can be changed if experimental evidence favors proposed changes.

Two days after giving evidence, he was again travelling Europe, beginning in the Dutch Republic.

Two more sequels were produced: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, which was initially scheduled for a fall 2011 release, but was pushed back until January 2012 after the West Memphis Three were released from prison while the film was in post-production, requiring new material to be added, and West of Memphis, which was released at the Sundance Film Festival days after Paradise Lost 3 aired on HBO and, based on new evidence, implicates a new suspect in the murders at Robin Hood Hills.

Two teachers survived the school massacre: Dobrila Martinović, who subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown, and Mara Šunjić ( shown as Tunjić in some documents ) who gave evidence against Filipović at his postwar trial in Belgrade.

Two long papers published in 1840 — one on attractions and Clairaut's theorem, and the other on the variation of gravity at the surface of the earth — also demand notice, as do his mathematical memoirs on the critical values of sums of periodic series ( 1847 ) and on the numerical calculation of a class of definite integrals and infinite series ( 1850 ) and his discussion of a differential equation relating to the breaking of railway bridges ( 1849 ), research related to his evidence given to the Royal Commission on the Use of Iron in Railway structures after the Dee bridge disaster of 1847.

Two of these tribes are attested based upon archaeological evidence: the Mitanni and the Kassites.

Two other witnesses said that the driver had asked for a second engine if more carriages were added and had been refused by the station master, as none was available ; the driver ( in supplementary evidence given " through the railway company's officers ") denied this.

Two castles Balp and Dachsberg are mentioned in old writings, but there is no evidence left.

Two appeals were unsuccessful, but after discredited forensics evidence was excluded from the prosecution's case, George's third appeal succeeded in November 2007.

Two psychiatrists gave evidence on Chapman's behalf.

Two days later, the Los Angeles Police Department raided ZZZZ Best's headquarters and Minkow's home, and found evidence that ZZZZ Best was being used to launder drug profits for organized crime.

Two joystick ports were built into the PCjr, evidence of IBM's goal for marketing the PCjr as a home-friendly machine.

Two of Metheny's recordings, The Way Up and Orchestrion, evidence the influence of American minimalist composer Steve Reich and utilize similar rhythmic figures structured around pulse.

The Two Rider University officials, including the dean of students, and three students were indicted for aggravated hazing ; the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence.

Two merchant ships may have been hit by Fritz X bombs at Salerno, though the evidence is uncertain.