Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about two " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He said , well I only live next door you know in a , in a village school quite obviously they all lived nearby and he was only gone about two or three minutes and he came back and once again , the young lady will know , but erm men might not know , I know , skirt hangers , you know skirt hangers , they 're on springs are n't they ? |
| 6 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 7 | the quiz is on the second of February , Wednesday , if anyone here is interested in coming they only had about two people attend from this village . |
| 8 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 9 | By the time the masters had recovered from the apres ski and had their lie-in , the boys only managed about two hours ’ skiing a day . ’ |
| 10 | You only have about two weeks left is that right ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Just think about two first of all . |
| 13 | Lives might have been saved if he had not waited about two hours before reporting the crash in April last year . |
| 14 | Well who was just dreaming about two ! |
| 15 | But I 've , I 've still got about two hours , at least er , to do . |
| 16 | there shanks usually weigh about two and a half pound |
| 17 | Our research suggests that after the sale of the music business to Thorn , the trusts would have got about four hundred and fifty million pounds , even after paying off debts and setting aside money for the initial expansion of Virgin Atlantic , that would still leave about two hundred and fifty million . |
| 18 | probably got about two centimetres |
| 19 | You 'll probably need about two hours . |
| 20 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 21 | The Order increases protection and cover and also embraces about two hundred thousand people who were not previously protected . |
| 22 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 23 | 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 ? ’ |
| 24 | All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth , I do n't know about two front seats . |
| 25 | In particular , they became increasingly worried about two things . |
| 26 | We , well take about two days to dry . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | and then put about two tablespoons on each time and stand back . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |