Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] two " in BNC.

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1 It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing .
2 Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch .
3 Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week announced that it has expanded the number of software and communications products offered under its Distributed Computing Model to the DPX/20 Unix and DPS GCOS systems , and it introduced two new models of the DPX/20 , based on IBM 's Power RISC architecture .
4 And it cost two pound thirty five for a hundred and thirty six gram egg and two forty gram Creme Eggs .
5 This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws .
6 The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’
7 ferry timetables forced a quick visit , but it allowed two good days ' walking .
8 The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm .
9 But it included two innovations : condoms were to be distributed to those adolescents who requested them , and homosexuals were to be included in the list of cultural minorities to be studied and appreciated .
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