Example sentences of "it [vb past] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 2 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 3 | It is kept alone due to its aggressive behaviour — it attacked two large Pacus and a 1½″ long Arrowana and had to be swiftly moved . |
| 4 | Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China . |
| 5 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 6 | ‘ It sold two and a half thousand copies very quickly and Lime had to get more pressed . |
| 7 | At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 8 | By the early part of the 18th century , it housed two fulling mills and in 1709 was leased or sold by John Freame to Thomas Yates or Yeates . |
| 9 | It involved two satyrs and a woman and was very obscene indeed . |
| 10 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 11 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
| 12 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 13 | It cost two shillings . |
| 14 | It cost two million pounds , and includes the latest in video technology , as Adrian Britton reports . |
| 15 | And it cost two pound thirty five for a hundred and thirty six gram egg and two forty gram Creme Eggs . |
| 16 | It 's completed , it 's ready to work , it cost two billion dollars and it 's idle . |
| 17 | It drove two four wheeled bogies . |
| 18 | It drove two of the witnesses to the door , one of them Bloxham , whose nausea overtook him before he could reach the corridor . |
| 19 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 20 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 21 | In so far as the flat told us anything at all , it told two conflicting stories . |
| 22 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 23 | It comprised two main elements , professional and academic , each sub-divided . |
| 24 | It comprised two rooms each c. 4 m ( 13 ft ) square , laid out on either side of the alley ( 3 ) , which presumably served further rooms and a yard to the rear . |
| 25 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 26 | Well , it seemed two two to me ! |
| 27 | The AA says it surveyed two hundred and sixteen car parks … and the Westgate Centre scored joint lowest in every category . |
| 28 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 29 | I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights . |
| 30 | IBM Japan Ltd is not risking the opprobrium that fell on Eastman Kodak Co when it fired two thirds of its Japanese researchers and withdrew offers of employment it had made to graduates , but it does want to get its 25,000-strong workforce down by 1,200 . |