Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] take two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 3 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 4 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 5 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 6 | Then he took two packets of his swimming biscuits and a carton of orange from the back of the fridge , so his Mum would n't notice . |
| 7 | Then he took two detectives to the Queenshill Bridge over the river Severn , Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on the third day of the trial . |