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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It has only two terminals which connect to ‘ 0V ’ and ‘ OUT ’ in Fig 4 .
4 It has only two EC competitors .
5 It has only two functions in life — to replicate undetected and to carry a payload , possibly destructive .
6 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 ) .
7 There is a tricuspid or heart shaped apical papilla flanked on each side by two distal oral papillae , which arise on the adoral shields occasionally the more distal one is divided making it appear as two papillae .
8 Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for .
9 And it happened just two streets away from The Bar .
10 It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls .
11 Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages .
12 Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda .
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 I should think it measured about two yards .
15 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 .
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 Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task .
19 It contained only two songs : ‘ Soiled ’ , a frothy , winsome pop thing , and ‘ Soup ’ , a luscious paean to Judy Garland that was supremely infectious , full of wry wit ( ‘ You 're much thinner when you 're ill ’ ) and packed with aural surprises .
20 The company , Cuba Paquetes , sends out more than a ton of goods each week ; last week , it sent nearly two tons of medicine and clothing .
21 Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south .
22 It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm .
23 It took nearly two weeks of detailed discussion by planning officers of all three services to work out the denials .
24 It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat .
25 It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come .
26 It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent .
27 IT TOOK perhaps two minutes for Glenn Miller to line up his shot .
28 With losses amounting to £71m ( $137m ) in Italian life insurance , Guardian Royal Exchange , a British insurance company , is shedding two of three Italian subsidiaries it bought nearly two years ago .
29 You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ .
30 Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago .
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