Example sentences of "[pron] takes two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now discuss " sweeping " , which takes two forms . |
| 2 | Before use , the trimmer must be fully charged , which takes two hours . |
| 3 | She takes two teaspoons of sugar in each of her hot drinks ; she adds two teaspoons of sugar to her breakfast cereal ( or has sugar-coated cereal or muesli with sugar ) . |
| 4 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 5 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 6 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 7 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 8 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 9 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 10 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 11 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 12 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 13 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 14 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 15 | It takes two sides to make war . |
| 16 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 17 | It takes two AA size alkaline batteries . |
| 18 | It takes two AA size batteries . |
| 19 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 20 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 21 | It takes two people to have safer sex in a relationship . |
| 22 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 23 | And I 'll just , just discuss briefly two of the cases that he uses and they 're , you know , they 're , they 're old now , I have n't read the most recent edition of his book , he might have updated his case studies but it does n't really matter he takes two cases er one relating to erm the conduct of the Korean war in the nineteen fifties , and the other relating to the desegregation of southern schools , also in the nineteen fifties , as examples of presidential power . |