Example sentences of "it [vb past] two [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 2 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 3 | I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights . |
| 4 | It followed two cases of toddlers being snatched to safety after alarms caught fire . |
| 5 | It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] . |
| 6 | In addition to FPP members , it included two members of the GVP , one Fijian independent and the MP for Rotuma . |
| 7 | It wrecked two floors of the Dickens and Jones store in Milton Keynes and caused twenty million pounds damage . |
| 8 | In addition to the brushes and aluminium powder he needed for taking latent fingermarks , it contained two sets of coveralls of a white , light , shiny material . |
| 9 | The firm has been deluged by applications for tickets after it offered two flights to Europe with every Hoover product bought worth more than £100 . |
| 10 | ‘ It took two cops tae hold her back . ’ |
| 11 | It took two members of staff about ten minutes of tugging to remove the anemone , by which time it had become ragged and contracted . |
| 12 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
| 13 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 14 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 15 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 16 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
| 17 | The gathering perception that pen input has been over-hyped was reflected in the fact that it slipped two points to 8% , and speech technology does n't have many friends either , dropping one point to just 7% . |
| 18 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 19 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 20 | Apart from this book that was thirty pounds , it had two pages in it . |
| 21 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 22 | ‘ It had two teddies on the front and the printed words : ‘ You are never far apart from someone you love ’ . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The first record of the Works ' involvement in war-work is that of 1855 , when it supplied two locomotives for the Army on the Balaclava Railway in the Crimea . |
| 25 | The one exception was the display cabinet mounted on the wall : it held two rows of Staffordshire figures ; their garish colours contrasted vividly with the muted pastels in the rest of the room . |