Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop . |
| 2 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Traditionally it has two main uses : by the Marxists to describe the type of society which preceded ‘ capitalist ’ society ; by legal historians to describe a particular kind of legal relationship . |
| 6 | Now it has two security guards . |
| 7 | Miami previously had no black members of Congress ; now it has two . |
| 8 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 9 | Its disadvantages are as follows : ( 1 ) If regulatory and common law rules are to operate harmoniously , the former must replicate the latter , or alternatively it posits two independent systems of regulation , one operating in the regulatory context and the other in the ordinary courts . |
| 10 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 11 | This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go . |
| 12 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 13 | Then it put two Croatian towns , ancient Dubrovnik , on the Adriatic , and Vukovar , a pretty Danube town , under siege ; to punish or reverse Croatia 's secession , said the army . |
| 14 | Then it showed two of the coaches of the second train sprawled across the track . |
| 15 | Yet it takes two to compromise . |
| 16 | The first record of the Works ' involvement in war-work is that of 1855 , when it supplied two locomotives for the Army on the Balaclava Railway in the Crimea . |
| 17 | Again it has two positions , labelled 0 and n on the Silver and Knitmaster and R and P on the Brother . |
| 18 | 8 The total timing appears to reflect the use of the shorter versions of those movements where such exist , adding up to 30 ‘ bonnes minutes ’ , i.e. it includes two timings of ‘ bonnes minutes ’ and one of ‘ petites minutes , matching well the inscription ‘ une bonne demi-heure ’ ( See also note 12 . ) |