Example sentences of "it took two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 2 | It took two years , until 1 November , 1952 , to produce Teller 's first thermo-nuclear explosion . |
| 3 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 4 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 5 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
| 6 | It took two workers to carry the world 's largest aircraft engine igniter to the designer — who said that the component agreed with the specifications , and approved it . |
| 7 | It took two hours , even using all the short cuts , to walk to Low Birk Hatt , and it was about I a.m. when I got back . |
| 8 | ‘ It took two cops tae hold her back . ’ |
| 9 | It took two members of staff about ten minutes of tugging to remove the anemone , by which time it had become ragged and contracted . |
| 10 | Sink It took two people 90 minutes to wash up , dry , clean sink and draining board and put the dishes away . |
| 11 | It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit . |
| 12 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 13 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
| 14 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 15 | For once , I thought before speaking , and so was able to refrain from remarking tritely that it took two to make a marriage . |
| 16 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 17 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 18 | And er I er penetrated , it took two or three days in the womb with this spoon , and the heard something go pop . |
| 19 | It took two people quite a time to take the big sheets down one by one , flap and fold them , holding the corners tight . |
| 20 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
| 21 | It took two years . |
| 22 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 23 | It took two shots to blast the lock off the stout , metal-sheathed door . |
| 24 | It took two weeks to weave , working ten hours a day . |
| 25 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
| 26 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
| 27 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
| 28 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |