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Examples
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We have a cottage on the fell we have had for 42 years; it was, when we bought it, two-up, two-down.
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He was seething at my choice of clothes and also a little unhappy about the fact that Manchester City were already two-down in the early kick-off.
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'The Life of Mona' filled the glossy magazine that reprinted Joanie's ball-gowns and put them alongside views of the dingy two-up two-down.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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Oliver, suddenly remembering Mona's simple will, decided to consult her next door two-up two-down neighbour at once about what to do with Joanie's 'bits and pieces', that she'd bequeathed to Cassidy.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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Mona, living as always in the two-up two-down terraced cottage that had once been Joanie's home, continued to ride her creaky old bicycle morning and evening to work in a children's riding school, where she looked after a row of hard-worked ponies.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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As with Steptoe and Son, this was about more than just the generation gap; it was about a world on the turn, its emerging values fought over in the front room of a two-up, two-down.
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Cassidy Lovelace Ward paid a decorator to make attractive the bed-sitting room, bathroom and kitchen that had been fitted into an unused end of the stable block, but Mona, uncomfortable with even minimum luxury, preferred a creaky journey by bicycle morning and evening from her two-down two-up independence.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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(That's based on the assumption that the two-up, two-down system isn't changed in mid-season as part of the restructuring proposals currently being drawn up by the counties - with some announcements expected towards the end of this month - what a farce.)
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Mona in her independent two-up two-down carefully paid rent for everything.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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Take one example: a family friend, who was a career soldier rising to the rank of Colour Sergeant, retired to a two-up two-down in suburban Essex and lived off a combination of state and service pensions for 27 years.
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