How to Use one or two in a Sentence

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  • Don't store them on your counter longer than one or two days.
    — Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
  • At 29 years old, there’s not a super bright outlook for Moore beyond one or two years.
    — Steve Bradshaw, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Before 2023, a new grad could spend two years writing code by hand before managing one or two people.
    — Neo Lee, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Sporting can simply waive one or two of those center backs should the club end up acquiring more than four players between now and the window’s closing.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • Most consumers may carry several credit cards, but only one or two capture the majority of spend.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The fee can be more or less according to the size of a homeowner’s premium and is split into monthly payments that insurers can spread over one or two years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Prepare a grill for medium-high indirect heat (for a gas grill, leave one or two burners off; for a charcoal grill, bank coals on one side); lightly oil grate with vegetable oil.
    — Inés Anguiano, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • While square-sided wells typically have only one or two energy levels, triangular wells can have many.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Whether that means one or two training sessions beforehand or, as Taylor argues, simply the pre-match warm-up remains uncertain.
    — Alan McCall, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Then share the themes openly, protect confidentiality and act on one or two visible fixes quickly so people see their honesty led to change.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • When knowledge lives in one or two individuals, the organization becomes fragile.
    — Adi Klevit, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Hubble may have much greater sensitivity and capture more crisp images than Swift, but the large space telescope can take one or two days to reposition itself to point at a target of interest, Cenko said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • Amid the rapid rise of e-commerce and the pandemic’s disruptions, retailers steadily expanded their fulfillment networks beyond one or two national distribution hubs to position inventory closer to consumers.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
  • In addition, where most prior work relied on 2D materials that were just one or two layers thick, Lanza and his colleagues used a sheet of 2D material consisting of roughly 18 layers that was altogether about 6 nanometers thick.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023

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