Example sentences of "[vb past] about two " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I would like to say before we look at those is that the Act was actually based upon a report — the government set up a committee to look into special education several years ago , and this reported about two years ago . |
| 2 | Ooh no I ca n't , I can remember where we bought it , we bought it in Hillsham and we paid about two hundred pounds for it , I know , erm , what was I saying ? |
| 3 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 4 | I should think it measured about two yards . |
| 5 | Department officials had been monitoring the convoy which spent about two weeks at a roadside halt near Ardglass before slipping into Downpatrick overnight . |
| 6 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 7 | ‘ I ordered about two thousand boxes , ’ he recalled . |
| 8 | The new technique makes use of the non-linear interaction of intense light with matter , a phenomenon first discovered about two decades ago . |
| 9 | Well so was I but we finished about two . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't played guitar synth live for a long time , but what I use is a Photon MIDI converter , which I actually got about two weeks ago ; I put it on one of my Steinberger guitars . |
| 11 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 12 | probably got about two centimetres |
| 13 | Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play . |
| 14 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 15 | Stepping into the space vacated by TV-am , GMTV inherited about two million viewers — breakfast television 's biggest single audience . |
| 16 | She was in her bed and it felt about two o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | A receiving station operated by the European Space Agency near Rome acquired about two months worth of data from the thematic mapper before transmitting equipment broke down . |
| 18 | Fedorov is Russian of course , and has lived here ten years or thereabouts ; wife , also Russian , died about two years ago . |
| 19 | Al Palanza Jr 's brother died about two weeks before the letter arrived from Greenville County Department of Social Services , he said . |
| 20 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 21 | In 1619 Sir Thomas Smith , who had been treasurer of the Company since 1609 , was pushed into retirement and the new directors led by Sir Edwin Sandys brought about two important changes . |
| 22 | and the they cost at that time the Swatch costed about one thousand three hundred thousand francs and they costed about two thousand eight hundred I think |
| 23 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
| 24 | But that took about two years by the time , I purposely started smoking to keep it down . |
| 25 | took about two and a half , two hours did n't it ? |
| 26 | The road forked about two hundred yards in front of her and Donna leant forward in her seat , willing the car to greater speed . |
| 27 | I did about two and then I went off again and erm |
| 28 | Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ? |
| 29 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 30 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |