Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Situated in Hind Cove , it takes over two hours to reach from Wasdale . |
10 | It takes about two hours to watch it |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It becomes just two fingers in the eye type of thing . |