Example sentences of "it [vb past] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 2 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 3 | It involved two satyrs and a woman and was very obscene indeed . |
| 4 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | It cost two shillings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It comprised two rooms each c. 4 m ( 13 ft ) square , laid out on either side of the alley ( 3 ) , which presumably served further rooms and a yard to the rear . |
| 9 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It finished two months ahead of schedule , a bonus for both motorists and the contractors . |
| 12 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 13 | It began two weeks ago with revelations about the tax arrangements of Mr Birt , who was employed as a freelance consultant via his own firm in the £140,000-a-year job . |
| 14 | It followed two cases of toddlers being snatched to safety after alarms caught fire . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 17 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |
| 18 | In addition to FPP members , it included two members of the GVP , one Fijian independent and the MP for Rotuma . |
| 19 | But it included two innovations : condoms were to be distributed to those adolescents who requested them , and homosexuals were to be included in the list of cultural minorities to be studied and appreciated . |
| 20 | There was a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 21 | There was also a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 22 | It wrecked two floors of the Dickens and Jones store in Milton Keynes and caused twenty million pounds damage . |
| 23 | This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |
| 26 | As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | To the miner , it meant two things : a rarity discovered and bread for his table . |
| 29 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
| 30 | It took two hours , even using all the short cuts , to walk to Low Birk Hatt , and it was about I a.m. when I got back . |