Example sentences of "take two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 4 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Railway : The train to Salzburg takes an hour and a half and costs approx AS 270 ; alternatively Innsbruck takes two hours and costs approx AS 370 . |
| 7 | Before use , the trimmer must be fully charged , which takes two hours . |
| 8 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The distance from London to Weymouth is a hundred and forty three miles the train takes two hours forty two minutes for the journey |
| 13 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | — Cruelty to animals takes two forms : the method of killing it and what you do with a live animal which is in your power . |
| 16 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 17 | This takes two forms : government officials and bodies , like citizens , are liable to be sued for torts , breaches of contract , breaches of trust , and so on . |
| 18 | We now discuss " sweeping " , which takes two forms . |
| 19 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 20 | The tort takes two forms according to whether or not unlawful means are used , though the decision of the House of Lords in Lonrho Ltd . |
| 21 | This treatment takes two forms . |
| 22 | This takes two forms : the contracting out of clinical work to private hospitals and competitive tendering for the provision of non-medical services such as cleaning , catering and laundry services . |
| 23 | Diligence on the dependence takes two forms . |
| 24 | The Offline System always takes two copies ( designated as Primary and Secondary ) of any module which is to be offlined , before it deletes the online copy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 27 | The salmon wo n't hold a minute more for me and fish takes two forks and he 's a busy man … |
| 28 | Building the form takes two sheets of 18mm Sterling board and about half a day . |
| 29 | The device takes two pictures from the different video channels , and aligns them in time , so that the horizontal lines of one picture exactly match the horizontal lines of the other . |
| 30 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |