Example sentences of "it take two [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
2 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
3 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
4 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
5 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
6 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
7 | It takes two sides to make war . |
8 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
9 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
10 | It takes two people to have safer sex in a relationship . |
11 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
12 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
13 | It took two shots to blast the lock off the stout , metal-sheathed door . |
14 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
15 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
16 | It took two workers to carry the world 's largest aircraft engine igniter to the designer — who said that the component agreed with the specifications , and approved it . |
17 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
18 | It took two weeks to weave , working ten hours a day . |
19 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |