Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On Dec. 12 a Swedish company , Brown Boveri , admitted that it had sold two presses used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons , to Iraq .
2 It had taken two hours .
3 Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ?
4 However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma .
5 By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter .
6 The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs .
7 If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped .
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