Example sentences of "it had two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of five large companies dominating production , distribution and exhibition , as in the US , it had two , Rank and ABPC . |
| 2 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 3 | It had two doors . |
| 4 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 5 | It had two fulling stocks , a gig mill and in addition , a grist mill , not an uncommon combination . |
| 6 | In the early twentieth-century it had two churches , one shop , no omnibus or train service , no gas or water supply and no electricity ( the Rectory had a private generator ) . |
| 7 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 8 | It had two long handles called ‘ stangs ’ , like the shafts of a horse-drawn wagon . |
| 9 | It had two internal courts , with the principal office entrance from the east , a secondary entrance from Downing Street , and the entrance to the Foreign Secretary 's residence under a porte-cochère from the park . |
| 10 | One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’ |
| 11 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 12 | And when a police officer went to examine the Nissan Cherry he discovered that it had two bald tyres . |
| 13 | A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose . |
| 14 | ‘ It had two teddies on the front and the printed words : ‘ You are never far apart from someone you love ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 16 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 17 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
| 18 | Although there is nothing particularly unusual in this degree of favouritism , it had two serious consequences : |
| 19 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 20 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 21 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 22 | It had two main effects , the first of which was beneficial , in that the School gained a certain measure of independence from the Town Council , for various other public bodies were invited to nominate Governors . |
| 23 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 24 | It had two foundations . |
| 25 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 26 | It had two vertical cylinders with direct rod drive to cast-iron wheels with shrunk-on tyres of wrought iron , the first of their type ; most importantly , it pioneered the discharge of exhaust steam through a converging nozzle blast pipe , in the chimney , greatly increasing combustion intensity and steam production . |
| 27 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 28 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 29 | It had two lids which you closed once you were in , and instead of bullets , it fired rockets . |
| 30 | It had two small , dark holes for eyes , a straight nose , and an open mouth that was a slash of darkness . |