Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [num] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 2 | When the watch was started they would have fifty-five seconds to move clear . |
| 3 | It would make one regret to lose it and yet I shall think nothing but that loss wanting to complete my happiness . |
| 4 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 5 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 6 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 7 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 8 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 9 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 10 | It would take six hours to examine all thousand stones . |
| 11 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
| 12 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 13 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 14 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 15 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |
| 16 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 17 | Admittedly , it would take twenty-four hours to see if the blood on the scissors matched the sample from Nicola Sharpe and if the partial fingerprints could be matched against the elimination prints from David Parkin . |