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phrase [PHRASE with cl]You can use in ones and twos to indicate that people do things or something happens gradually and in small groups. They lose interest and start drifting away in ones and twos. See full dictionary entry for oneExamples of 'in ones and twos' in a sentencein ones and twos Often people come out in ones and twos to watch.They also grow in ones and twos on roadside banks.Last week they arrived in ones and twos.You don't find them in herds, only in ones and twos or small groups.Butterflies are still about in ones and twos, but not in great clouds.Bright yellow leaves are falling in ones and twos from the hornbeams.Dopers tend to get exposed in ones and twos, not in hordes like this.They arrive in ones and twos, and sometimes in flocks.They come not in ones and twos, but by the hundred.They stop to feed in ones and twos over lakes and reservoirs, but they do not hover and dive for fish like the other terns. |