Example sentences of "about two " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Basic equipment : a large white food-grade plastic dustbin with a capacity of at least six gallons ; plastic tubing , about two metres long with an internal diameter of at least 10 millimetres ; a wine cube — the plastic cubes used in an off-licence for selling draught wine and sherry are ideal ; an air lock and rubber bung ; about 40 one pint beer bottles ; a corking machine and crown corks ; a sterilising agent such as Chempro SDP or a mixture of sodium metabisulphite and citric acid ; a 12 pint pan . |
| 4 | Before the Gulf conflict , about two million Arabs and 250,000 non-Arabs visited Jordan each year . |
| 5 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 6 | But even in the least conducive conditions , with no wind , you should be able make a properly held-off touch down within about two fuselage lengths of your chosen spot . |
| 7 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 8 | The crater was about two miles across , almost perfectly circular , with several steep-sided peaks evenly placed around the rim . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Switch on the coil current ( set to 125mA ) and the test point voltage should change by about two volts or so , positively or negatively . |
| 11 | BBC has been testing EON on its local radio traffic experiment in south-east England and the Midlands for about two years , and several other European countries are already , or soon will be , implementing EON , although none of the 50 or so existing RDS models is suitable for this function . |
| 12 | They were less enthusiastic about two places which would consider themselves several cuts above the Meridien . |
| 13 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 14 | The charcuterie , with seasonal variations , includes about two dozen different Italian salamis and sausages , Parma ham and the more delicately flavoured San Daniele . |
| 15 | It is not available in the first year of the policy and in the second year only £250 — about two hours ' worth for a top London matrimonial lawyer -will be met for each party . |
| 16 | There will be about two million more people in England in the year 2001 than in 1986 . |
| 17 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 18 | The odd German shell was bursting in the field about two hundred yards away from the bridge , far enough not to do any harm , except possibly to the cattle . |
| 19 | The regiment had come ashore that morning and were going into action that evening , attacking the village just along the road , about two hundred yards from the edge of our village and close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 20 | About two yards from the sea he suddenly stopped and jumped round to face us , legs apart and arms above his head , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , last man to Brighton beach is a sissy ’ . |
| 21 | This was followed by an intense artillery bombardment lasting about two hours , forcing everyone in the orchard to keep well below ground . |
| 22 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 23 | One hour later I cross over the burn and see the croft on the side of the hill about two hundred yards away . |
| 24 | Arthur Benson recovered from several years of mental breakdown about two years previously and was in the evening summer of his life . |
| 25 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 26 | After about two weeks , long cracks had developed in the egg , lines of longitude . |
| 27 | When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people . |
| 28 | Today , Roddick spends about two months a year travelling the world , picking up tips about natural ingredients to go into her products . |
| 29 | Pour about two inches of this mixture into a shallow tray and submerge 50 or so lengths of reed at a time . |
| 30 | She wanted another 35p ( about two hundred million lire ) and was insistent . |