Example sentences of "[conj] it would take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally . |
| 4 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 5 | The Libyan government announced that it would take reciprocal action against any countries expelling Libyan diplomats . |
| 6 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 7 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 8 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 12 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 13 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 14 | TAXATION is unlikely to be increased , though that has been suggested , as it would take much-needed spending power out of the economy and be unacceptable to the newly-powerful Tory Backbenchers . |
| 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 . |