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Example sentences of "it was two [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it .
2	And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom .
3	It was two boys we met in the club .
4	if you saw something where , I do n't know , say it was two glasses and then we could buy two as well and
5	The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders .
6	The house was very grand , in fact it was two houses .
7	It was two summers since Allen had come to the village and taught her to shoot .
8	And a fellow said to me about two ye , two to three years ago I expect it was two telegraph people up that pole out an just outside of my gate and he 's still there and I walk along the gate and he turned round to me he say you 're a lucky man !
9	it was two girls
10	It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth .
11	Instead of one two is two ; two twos are four ; three twos are six , it was two ones are two ; two twos are four ; two threes are six etc .
12	No it was two pounds she said .
13	It was it was two magazines but what it actually was which I
14	It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in .
15	It was two hours later when they returned to Leitzig 's office .
16	It was two hours later , and the sprawling house was still loud with laughter and voices , and crammed with people .
17	I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one .
18	It was two hours before the Home Office pathologist arrived .
19	In the early twelfth century it was two shillings ; a century earlier it must often have been considerably more .
20	There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation .
21	It was two minutes later .
22	It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills .
23	It was two minutes to six that we
24	Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell .
25	Well , you keep playing do n't you , it 's a ninety minute game , and then , as we 've said erm I believe it was two goals in the last four minutes , was it ?
26	Mind you , I did think last year the grant was down too low , at eight hundred thousand , but that was the amount they put in , it was two point eight , I think , to start with , and two million pounds offered in the end .
27	It 's basically offering people erm rather than becoming members they can become a supporter for five pounds a year of the Green Party for which they get three shortened up beat newsletters and this week it was two sides of A four .
28	It was two pound , and one eighty on the six o'clock showing .
29	Actually , this time it was two shots : first poor old Doug 's missed putt and then the shot Nicklaus put through the green on the 18th in the playoff .
30	‘ But it was n't two teenagers getting married so quickly , it was two grownups , well into their thirties .