Example sentences of "take about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The museum believes that the fundraising will take about eight months . |
| 2 | This will take about 1hr as the dough is very rich . |
| 3 | The first hurdle , a quarter-peal , will take about 45 minutes to ring , but to complete the theoretically-possible 479 million changes on a ring of 12 bells would take about 27 years , non-stop . |
| 4 | The first hurdle , a quarter-peal , will take about 45 minutes to ring , but to complete the theoretically-possible 479 million changes on a ring of 12 bells would take about 27 years , non-stop . |
| 5 | This process alone would take about five years . |
| 6 | But it would take about ten times the age of the Universe to write it all . ’ |
| 7 | When these far from straightforward issues have eventually been resolved , the draft will be subject to public comments ( six months ) , then committee revision ( say nine months ) — and , finally , it will take about a year before specifiers can see anything in print . |
| 8 | Do n't try to hurry the programme of exercises , which should take about twenty minutes or so . |
| 9 | ‘ It 'll take about an hour and a half . |
| 10 | The survey will take about six months to complete . |
| 11 | It will cost around A$20 million and should take about four years to build . |
| 12 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 13 | If somebody went to a party and drank 12 units of alcohol ( far more than he should have ) it will take about eight hours before blood alcohol is even approaching the legal limit . |
| 14 | Sangenic can take about three days ' supply of soiled nappies before it needs emptying . |
| 15 | Halstead says that a 30-ton Brontosaurus would take about three days to change its temperature by 1°C . |
| 16 | Having taken care of the business ( an American priority ) she flashed the teeth in Kenneth 's direction once more and said : ‘ Lynne 's surgery will take about ninety minutes . |
| 17 | In Neville Russell ( 1987 ) 3 BVC 611 , the first year 's rent was cut by £240,000 because two floors of the building were not needed by Neville Russell , and it would take about a year to find a suitable person to take a sub-lease for those two floors . |
| 18 | Generally the picture will take about three weeks to build . |
| 19 | The whole exercise should take about ten to fifteen minutes — leave lots of time for the ‘ imagining ’ part . |
| 20 | The whole exercise , from beginning to end , should take about two hours , with plenty of time at the start just for thinking . |
| 21 | The latest campaign will take about four years . |
| 22 | IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect . |
| 23 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 24 | This process will take about 3 hours . |
| 25 | This process should take about 2 hours . |
| 26 | This process will take about 5 hours . |
| 27 | This process will take about 2 hours . |
| 28 | The process will take about half an hour , will require two reels of tape and will be initiated by the Computer Services Department operator at 08.00 , whenever a transfer to the Working-Set has taken place on the previous night . |
| 29 | Erm it 's er would take about er twenty years to build , would cost about ten billion pounds , but of course once you 've built it , er the running costs are very er small . |
| 30 | " It will take about five hours . " |