Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 2 | It divided into two , then curled back on each side of her head , bursting into bud , then leaf , to wrap around her skull . |
| 3 | Led by Geoff Lawson and Keith Helfet , it beat off two late challenges from Ford sources — the Ghia studio in Turin and Ford 's US design centre in Dearborn . |
| 4 | A minimum wage was established by the minority Socialist government in 1947 but it suffered from two significant weaknesses compared to Densan . |
| 5 | It came in two colours , medium brown or medium grey ; it shone with a slightly oily sheen . |
| 6 | It came from two separate sources within the same tank . |
| 7 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 8 | It rested on two basic assumptions : that Britain 's power and influence in the world depended upon a sound economy ; and that by making the fullest use of nuclear weapons , missiles , and modern transport aircraft , men and money could be saved for the country 's economic benefit . |
| 9 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 10 | It consisted of two large blocks of buildings which have now been converted into flats . |
| 11 | It consisted of two internal combustion engines coupled to 35k VA three-phase alternators , which generated current at 250 volts . |
| 12 | It consisted of two concentric structures , the outer one nine feet and the inner one six feet in diameter . |
| 13 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 14 | In a yellow cornfield near Marlott village it shone on two large arms of painted wood . |
| 15 | This proviso was fundamental , and we can find it expressed in two letters of this period on the preference to be given to the claim of monastic life over every other demand — a theme of central importance in his thought . |
| 16 | It sprang from two beliefs : that a radical review of provision of primary care was required and that no established procedure should remain unquestioned . |
| 17 | He hit the flaring log such a hefty thwack that it broke in two . |
| 18 | ‘ Kalli , ’ wrote Denness in his autobiography , ‘ was so angry that he smashed his bat so savagely on the pavilion steps that it broke in two . ’ |
| 19 | It survived for two and a half years under the Georgian Social Democrats ( mainly Menshevik ) , and instituted important reforms . |
| 20 | Seconds later , the 400-ton cargo plane exploded in a fireball as it smashed into two blocks of flats — killing all four aboard and several hundred on the ground . |
| 21 | It flew within two hundred feet of Gatwick 's South terminal buildings and could easily have hit other aircraft or vehicles . |
| 22 | But it died within two weeks . ’ |
| 23 | It looked like two rooms in one , because that 's what it was ; Joe had recognised the layout as that of a disused encounter studio , a place whose sole commodity would once have been three or four minutes of stilted conversation with a naked woman in the armchair . |
| 24 | It grew in two ways : initially , as more people got TV sets , and then as programme hours increased . |
| 25 | He tried the hook , got a top edge and it went for two over the keeper 's head . |
| 26 | But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid ! |
| 27 | MORE than 18,000 passengers have flown on the new Belfast City to London Gatwick service since it took off two months ago , Jersey European revealed today . |
| 28 | It took about two and a half days to read it all . |
| 29 | It took about two and a half hours to fire that bread . |
| 30 | And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about ! |