Example sentences of "[conj] it takes two " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 2 | Solomon might have replied ( the records do not give his side of the story ) that it takes two to quarrel . |
| 3 | I should point out that in one of the features of adhesions is that it takes two to tango , so to speak ! |
| 4 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 5 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 6 | The trustees and the directors say that it takes two to three years to get the feel of the responsibilities — those responsibilities are considerably greater these days — and to work one 's way in and become able to contribute fully . |
| 7 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If it takes two to make an argument then each side must choose an issue over which some values ( ideals ? ) conflict . |
| 10 | But it takes two to get pregnant , and it is just as important to educate boys about contraception . |
| 11 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |