Example sentences of "this [noun sg] take two " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exercise took two days . |
| 2 | This work took two directions . |
| 3 | In addition to the two common core courses of the MSc/Diploma in Social Sciences , students of this stream take two required courses ( Principles and Politics of Policy , and Economics and Resourcing of Policy ) and two options from among the following : Ageing and Social Policy ; European Social Policy ; Law and Public Policy ; Management and Budgeting in the Public Sector ; The Social Division of Welfare , Social Policy in Scotland and Social Research and Social Policy . |
| 4 | This failure takes two main forms . |
| 5 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 6 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 7 | This treatment takes two forms . |
| 8 | Whether this attainment takes two years to acquire depends on what else is to be covered in Science , not its own intrinsic difficulty or depth . |