Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] takes two [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
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 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
4 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |