Example sentences of "it [verb] only two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has only two terminals which connect to ‘ 0V ’ and ‘ OUT ’ in Fig 4 . |
| 3 | It has only two EC competitors . |
| 4 | It has only two functions in life — to replicate undetected and to carry a payload , possibly destructive . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 7 | Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
| 10 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 11 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 12 | It had only two doors and by the time they had been pushed roughly into the back , with the Woman leaning round in the front seat to point the small gun at them , they hardly dared to breathe . |
| 13 | Outside parts of inner London , it held only two seats now in the south and east , below a line drawn from Bristol to the Wash . |