Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] about two " in BNC.

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1 In particular , they became increasingly worried about two things .
2 To quote my rabbi : ‘ Masters and Johnson — what did they know about sex that the rabbis did n't know about two thousand years ago ? ’
3 All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth , I do n't know about two front seats .
4 ‘ Well , I 'm left there shivering about two or three hours then I 'm taken upstairs and interrogated by these three very heavy-looking military guys .
5 You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four .
6 We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out .
7 but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay
8 Hydro said it would have lost an estimated 195 million kroner in 1992 if accounting changes had not freed about two billion kroner of reserves put aside for future tax obligations under the old accounting system .
9 Lives might have been saved if he had not waited about two hours before reporting the crash in April last year .
10 But I 've , I 've still got about two hours , at least er , to do .
11 I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down .
12 I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down .
13 Principal environmental officer , Bernard Cribbs : ‘ We used to get lots complaints about dog packs but this year we have only had about two which shows how effective the scheme has been . ’
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