Example sentences of "[verb] about two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 2 | Puerto de la Luz y Las Palmas , to give it its correct name , lies about two miles due south and is protected by a massive breakwater . |
| 3 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 4 | But what I would like to say before we look at those is that the Act was actually based upon a report — the government set up a committee to look into special education several years ago , and this reported about two years ago . |
| 5 | She continues to catch and bring back bees , one at a time , until each larva has about two bees to eat . |
| 6 | He had red hair and looked about two years older than me . |
| 7 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 8 | ‘ At the end of the day , we build about two ships a year and we have the option of using dry docks at Harland & Wolff in Belfast or perhaps Yarrow , ’ he said . |
| 9 | You 'll probably need about two hours . |
| 10 | After that , while never again did she stay long enough to have supper — or do the washing-up — Rosemary , still popping across to Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat at any time , accepted about two invitations in particular each week for coffee . |
| 11 | A rough fireplace surrounded by stones had been built about two metres in front of it , and grey ash fitted the centre of the ring . |
| 12 | When he when we get when I 've done about two pages guess how much he 's done ? |
| 13 | It 's been done , it 's been done about two weeks |
| 14 | You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four . |
| 15 | And she made me feel about two inches high |
| 16 | No do n't take them off , it 's ju d' ya know I had those re-heeled about two weeks ago . |
| 17 | and then put about two tablespoons on each time and stand back . |
| 18 | last time this was used about two years ago so it 's a bit stiff . |
| 19 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 20 | Must of had about two ounces on the bloody plate ! |
| 21 | But I 've , I 've still got about two hours , at least er , to do . |
| 22 | No , it 's got to be right , right , er big and I 'm going to stuff it with a plank of wood and put I 've got about two bushes and what the problem is , is you 've got get |
| 23 | Erm no I think I 've got about two weeks off . |
| 24 | I 've got wo I 've got about two earrings , and that 's it . |
| 25 | I should think it measured about two yards . |
| 26 | Department officials had been monitoring the convoy which spent about two weeks at a roadside halt near Ardglass before slipping into Downpatrick overnight . |
| 27 | I mean I do n't understand this you know , they oh bye , see you tomorrow you know about two hours . |
| 28 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 29 | Cos she takes about two pounds of root ginger peels it |
| 30 | The stage of expulsion of the child from the uterus and its journey through the vagina takes about two hours of this time and is the most painful stage . |