Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear .
2 Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things .
3 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 .
4 Now it has two security guards .
5 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 . "
6 Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty .
7 Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty .
8 Again it has two positions , labelled 0 and n on the Silver and Knitmaster and R and P on the Brother .
9 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 . )
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