Example sentences of "it took two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
4 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
5 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
6 | ‘ It took two cops tae hold her back . ’ |
7 | It took two members of staff about ten minutes of tugging to remove the anemone , by which time it had become ragged and contracted . |
8 | It took two shots to blast the lock off the stout , metal-sheathed door . |
9 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
10 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
11 | 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 ! |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
14 | It took two years , until 1 November , 1952 , to produce Teller 's first thermo-nuclear explosion . |
15 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
18 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
19 | It took two years . |
20 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |
21 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
22 | It took two weeks to weave , working ten hours a day . |