Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb mod] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour . |
| 2 | one , two , three casualties so it will take four people to carry her , four people to carry her , four people to carry him , that is sixteen , that is , altogether , twelve plus three , fifteen people we 've taken out of the battle , yeah ? |
| 3 | It clearly will not take immediate effect , there is a lot of housing allocations and permissions in the pipeline as it were , so it will take some while for it to wash through the system . |
| 4 | Hopefully it will take constructive criticism well and will carry on the excellent scientific work of the NCC . |
| 5 | There is also the possibility that the invention represents only a modest ( but nonetheless patented ) improvement on the employer 's existing products ; hence it may take several years simply to recoup the research and development costs . |
| 6 | There 's another situation , the hard news interview , which again is often on radio though it can take other forms and using other forms of the media , which Liz 'll talk about in a moment and I wo n't say more at this stage . |
| 7 | ‘ Now it 'll take all Wings Balsdon 's tact to get any parcels issued before next Monday . ’ |
| 8 | Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way . |
| 9 | Well it 'll take fucking ages and it 'll be very uncomfortable for you , whoever 's sitting in the back . |
| 10 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 11 | If your speed is 176 steps per minute then it will take 15 minutes to cover one mile : Distance = Speed x Time = 176 steps/min x 15 mins = 2,640 steps |
| 12 | These doughs are made in three minutes now where it used to take six hours . |
| 13 | A reasonable duration period should therefore be set for MINTEG otherwise it may take several runs before anything is deleted . |
| 14 | Otherwise it will take another Danish No to wake them up to what they have brought upon themselves . |
| 15 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 16 | In practice , however , the elasticity of demand for imports and exports may not be of an appropriate value or else it may take considerable time before such automatic forces become effective . |
| 17 | The half life of the parietal cell is 23 days in rats and presumably much longer in man and therefore it could take many months for resoluion of an increased parietal cell mass . |