Example sentences of "it take [pron] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It takes him about seven hours to get home , ’ said Bridget . |
| 2 | It takes us about forty minutes to get there |
| 3 | It takes you about three hours ! |
| 4 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 5 | And of Thompson , he added : ‘ It took me about two years to buy Thompson from Slough . |
| 6 | It took me about two weeks to catch up with the loss . |
| 7 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 8 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 9 | It took me about three hours to get six stops . |
| 10 | It took me about three hours to do my homework so I was very tired after everything . |
| 11 | It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it . |
| 12 | It took me about three seconds to realize that no human agency would ever get the ball out that way and without thinking I withdrew my hands , braced both thumbs behind the angle of the lower jaw and pushed . |
| 13 | But er to their credit er they got the contractors in and they commenced by putting up new pillars and new roofing structures and it took them about twelve months I think to actually build a new machine shop . |
| 14 | It took him about 150 hours to complete , and won him a City and Guilds senior award for excellence . |
| 15 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 16 | Even so , it took us about two years to get a guitar tone that worked . |
| 17 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 18 | Oh , I think it took us about seven years to get every room in our house |