When his father got posted to Guam, in 1927, Hubbard made two trips to see him.

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In March last year, he found work and accommodation in Galashiels, but subsequently made two trips back to see his family.

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Two years later a craft by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and aerospace designer Burt Rutan made two trips into space in 14 days and captured the prize. (Anousheh Ansari later got her wish, a flight to the International Space Station, in 2006.) Diamandis was finally launched.

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The Queen has only made two other trips to Wimbledon, in 1957 and 1962.

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Despite a shrapnel wound to his arm, Corporal Meyer made two more trips into the ambush area in a third gun truck, accompanied by four other Afghan vehicles, to recover more wounded Afghan soldiers and search for the missing U.S. team members.

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Advisers and representatives for the U.K. retirees made trips to New York every two to three weeks for the past 15 months to negotiate the arrangement, said Mr. Ross.

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But while those two have gone on on to Ryder Cup success, Storm has made four trips to the tour qualifying school and even worked in a cream cake factory four years ago.

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