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

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1 its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space .
2 It covers about two thousand years of history , but most the miracles are clustered round a few persons and events :
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 As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered .
6 It takes about two hours to watch it
7 She was in her bed and it felt about two o'clock in the morning .
8 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 .
9 We send out details to the schools each year , and they will book to bring a party of children round for , oh it lasts about two and a half hours altogether , and they will come either for a morning or for an afternoon .
10 This was the first phase of the eruption ; it lasted about two weeks .
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