Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And it happened just two streets away from The Bar . |
| 3 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 4 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I should think it measured about two yards . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It took nearly two weeks of detailed discussion by planning officers of all three services to work out the denials . |
| 13 | It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat . |
| 14 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
| 15 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 16 | IT TOOK perhaps two minutes for Glenn Miller to line up his shot . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 20 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This was the first phase of the eruption ; it lasted about two weeks . |
| 23 | It closed almost two pfennigs lower at Dm2.3486 and almost half-a-cent down at $1.4440 , while the FT-SE 100-Share Index also failed to make a decisive move and closed only 1.8 higher at 2,814.0 on cash-call fears , with nearly 619 million shares changing hands . |
| 24 | 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 . |