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

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1 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 .
2 The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off .
3 And it says two families discover how the divide between the north and south is narrowing .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 And it cost two pound thirty five for a hundred and thirty six gram egg and two forty gram Creme Eggs .
7 I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster .
8 But the tendency to project backwards in a single ( standard-based ) dimension can be seen in the work of many scholars , and it has two consequences that are of interest here .
9 If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ?
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