Example sentences of "it [vb mod] take two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
| 2 | Yamamura said it may take two or three years until the positive effect of the yen 's rise appears . |
| 3 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 4 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 5 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 6 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 7 | It also became clear it could take two or three days of fierce ministerial talks to sort out the division of the £244.5 billion public spending cake . |
| 8 | It might go on f it , it , it could take two or three years . |
| 9 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 10 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 11 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 12 | The Football League accountant told us it would take two or three weeks for the proper tax codes to be sorted out . |
| 13 | ‘ It would take two or three years to develop a concrete plan . ’ |
| 14 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 15 | And he 's the consultant told me , it would take two to three days . |
| 16 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 17 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 18 | In hand to hand combat it would take two , perhaps three , androids to subdue just one of them . |
| 19 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 20 | And he 's the consultant told me , it would take two to three days . |
| 21 | Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery . |
| 22 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 23 | Professor Baldassare Conticello , the Soprintendente , estimates that at this rate it will take two generations before the whole of Pompeii is once more in a stable condition . |
| 24 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 25 | ‘ It can take two to three years before an agent is in a position to provide accurate intelligence on ops and the movements of his colleagues , bombs and weapons . ’ |