Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marianne Brace spent eight months taking the Ashleys back to Pimlico , Brasted , Machynlleth and Tybrith , in order to produce a valuable archive document of an amazing , late-twentieth-century success story . |
| 2 | Customers at each of the Bank 's 750 branches took part in the survey . |
| 3 | SOME 180 children from eleven schools took part in the annual large primary schools ' netball rally at Eggar 's School , Alton on Saturday . |
| 4 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 5 | In contrast to the 12 months taken to draw up the amendments , he allowed a mere six weeks for the councils and people of the Borders to comprehend , communicate and respond to them . |
| 6 | A number of countries which were suspected ( principally by the USA and other Western countries ) of developing chemical weapons-including Libya , Iraq and Syria-were among a total of 22 countries taking part for the first time in the committee 's deliberations since the opening of the spring session , albeit as observers . |
| 7 | It is an institution in which forty countries take part , but in which Japan is not represented . |
| 8 | Turn right , then after 300 yds take track on left signposted bridleway . |
| 9 | The sixth World Cup will be the biggest yet with 12 teams taking part . |
| 10 | The sixth World Cup will be the biggest yet with 12 teams taking part . |
| 11 | Two days on the trot carrying a big bag over thirty-six holes took its toll on me at only eighteen . |
| 12 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 13 | The church provided 800 buses to take couples and relatives to the stadium . |
| 14 | More than 300 scientists took part in what was billed as the most comprehensive snap-shot yet of depletion cause by industrial gases above the northern hemisphere . |
| 15 | Material devastation was on a spectacular scale , in addition to episodes such as the tale of 300 babies taken out of hospital incubators and left to die on the ground . |
| 16 | The sale , which began in 1955 , has been in decline : last winter fewer than 290 booksellers and 12 publishers took part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 17 | The emphasis on ‘ crime ’ and the ‘ criminal acts ’ of the rioters in the official responses to the 1985 riots took a general and a specific form . |
| 18 | More than 50 adults arrested and 140 children taken in for questioning after raids across France on outlawed Children of God sect which preaches free love for all ages . |
| 19 | But dad John Watts makes sure all his 12 children take their turn and controls the chaos . |
| 20 | But dad John Watts makes sure all his 12 children take their turn and controls the chaos . |
| 21 | 9 12 men take 9 days to build a wall . |
| 22 | In Ramallah , more than 300 women took to the streets . |
| 23 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 24 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 25 | At Shell Chemicals 30 women take up 9.3 per cent of the managerial positions . |
| 26 | More than 700 runners took part in the Milton Keynes Straight Mile last year . |
| 27 | Computervision Corp is cutting another 700 jobs to take its payroll to 5,000 . |
| 28 | With no fewer than 70 countries taking television coverage , it should not lack exposure — not , that is , while Scotland last ! |
| 29 | One of the distinctive features of ‘ Documenta IX ’ is the way we selected the 186 artists taking part . |
| 30 | Hanging over the increasingly tense political situation throughout May was the fate of more than 100 prisoners taking part in a mass hunger strike which began on May 1 and was still continuing at the end of the month . |