Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It has developed in two ways .
2 It has fought for two years to survive the recession , selling assets to cut spiralling debts .
3 Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September .
4 This it intends to do in two ways .
5 That this unit is relatively ‘ shallow ’ genealogically speaking , i.e. that it tends to consist of two generations only and that for many couples the main tie of commitment and responsibility is the conjugal one .
6 Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air .
7 Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again .
8 However even before it came under attack from conservative administrations it had failed on two counts .
9 So it does n't matter whether we look at it as whether you 'd get a third or whether you say you 'd get two sixths well it does n't matter cos it 's the same size it 's just it 's cut into two pieces or the way you wanted to do it which was a good way with the first pizza .
10 Er , and it 's sung in two languages , either in French , or in Flemish , because they speak them both over there .
11 The central locking does n't work on the boot ; it remained unlocked for two months before Darren realised .
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