Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] two [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has only two options for collecting repayments of loans worth up to £460 a year — an income tax surcharge , or increased national insurance contributions — unless it sets up an even more costly mechanism . |
| 2 | It has only two functions in life — to replicate undetected and to carry a payload , possibly destructive . |
| 3 | It has only two stars above the third magnitude , Beta or Diphda ( 2.0 ) and Alpha ( 2.5 ) ; next come Eta ( 3.4 ) and Gamma and Tau ( each 3.5 ) . |
| 4 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 5 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 6 | It takes just two minutes for a burglar to turn a home into a nightmare — in the city of Gloucester police are being called up to twelve times a day by families finding scenes like these . |
| 7 | The company , Cuba Paquetes , sends out more than a ton of goods each week ; last week , it sent nearly two tons of medicine and clothing . |
| 8 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 9 | It took nearly two weeks of detailed discussion by planning officers of all three services to work out the denials . |
| 10 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
| 11 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 12 | IT TOOK perhaps two minutes for Glenn Miller to line up his shot . |
| 13 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 14 | It becomes just two fingers in the eye type of thing . |