Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos she takes about two pounds of root ginger peels it |
| 2 | But she does about two pound of root ginger . |
| 3 | In her five-page chapter on the running of the home she considers only two topics : financial arrangements between husband and wife , and the extent to which men share housework and the care of children . |
| 4 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 5 | He has just two O-Levels ; one of them a B grade in Art — it would have been an A , he says , if he 'd spent a little less time throwing paper at his classmates . |
| 6 | Look , Pickles , he has n't two beans to rub together . |
| 7 | In the world container leasing league he has only two rivals : Genstar has one million boxes , Tiphook 400,000 and third-ranking Trans-American 380,000 ( see graph ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has only two terminals which connect to ‘ 0V ’ and ‘ OUT ’ in Fig 4 . |
| 10 | It has only two EC competitors . |
| 11 | It has only two functions in life — to replicate undetected and to carry a payload , possibly destructive . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Rejecting the UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Libya unless it hands over two men accused of carrying out the 1989 Lockerbie airliner bombing , Gaddafi said he would never surrender to demands by the United States and Britain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Situated in Hind Cove , it takes over two hours to reach from Wasdale . |
| 16 | It takes about two hours to watch it |
| 17 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 18 | It becomes just two fingers in the eye type of thing . |
| 19 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |