Example sentences of "it take two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 2 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 3 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 4 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 5 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 6 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 7 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 8 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 9 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 10 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 11 | It takes two sides to make war . |
| 12 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 13 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 14 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 15 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
| 18 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 19 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
| 20 | ‘ It took two cops tae hold her back . ’ |
| 21 | It took two members of staff about ten minutes of tugging to remove the anemone , by which time it had become ragged and contracted . |
| 22 | It took two shots to blast the lock off the stout , metal-sheathed door . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It took two years , until 1 November , 1952 , to produce Teller 's first thermo-nuclear explosion . |
| 29 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 30 | 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 . |