Example sentences of "[noun] take several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recognition takes several forms , including modes of communication . |
| 2 | Most compiled , and the young actress took several photos — perhaps for her memoirs later |
| 3 | This remedy is similar to Aconite but lacks its febrile excitement and is slower in pace , its onset taking several days and often beginning in the evening . |
| 4 | Although her descent down the steep incline took several minutes , the queue at the foot remained motionless . |
| 5 | This photograph taken several years before the uplift shows the dark oceans to the left and the grey volcanic land to the right . |
| 6 | One of the most important areas of legal dispute in RENFE has been the calculation of overtime earnings , with matters taking several years to progress through the courts . |
| 7 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 8 | The process takes several months but eventually , when the tube is complete , a sperm cell is produced from the remains of the pollen grain . |
| 9 | Getting to Beni Abbes took several days . |
| 10 | Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent . |
| 11 | He says that the polishing takes several months . |
| 12 | Farmers took several payments for each load of produce and inflated their yield reports . |
| 13 | The British plan being a scientific destruction of military targets , as opposed to the Nazi 's indiscriminate methods , our personnel go through a course of instruction taking several months . |
| 14 | If the patient 's fever took several days to appear then it is much less likely to be Belladonna no matter how much the rest of the picture looks like it . |
| 15 | Doisneau took several pictures of kissing couples . |
| 16 | All adjudications took several months and none was successful . |
| 17 | Part of the explanation for this is that government spending tends to be planned over a number of years ( e.g. hospitals , schools , and other capital expenditures take several years to complete , and governments are reluctant to dismiss teachers , policemen , and other employees for short-term economic reasons ) ; consequently such expenditure tends to be fairly inflexible , especially downwards , in the short run . |
| 18 | Assume also that each module is taught by several lecturers ; each lecturer teaches one module ; each student takes several modules ; and each student has only one lecturer for a given module . |
| 19 | Charging up the smallest rod with deuterium took only two days , the 2 mm rod took a week and the 4 mm one took a month ; an 8 mm rod took several months to charge before any detailed experimental measurements could begin . |
| 20 | Current methods of detecting and classifying cholera vibrios take several days and involve culture in alkaline peptone water ( APW ) and on thiosulphate/citrate/bile-salts agar , slide agglutination with specific antisera , and finally toxin assays . |
| 21 | The ill-effects of state interference in the economy take several forms . |
| 22 | Then Harvey took several sheets of paper from his pocket , the contents of which he read quietly to her . |
| 23 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 24 | Burton by all accounts took several miles . |
| 25 | During the 1980s the Conservative government took several steps to increase tax relief on gifts with this in mind . |
| 26 | Fearful of any repetition of the urban riots , the American government took several measures in the late 1960s to strengthen its control capabilities . |
| 27 | The operation took several days to complete . |
| 28 | Respite care takes several forms : the challenge is to match these forms with needs . |
| 29 | During the war military training took several hours of the school curriculum and this did not end with the armistice . |
| 30 | Shift workers and international travellers take several days for their systems to readjust , with the consequence that their low temperature when awake results in poor mental performance and a feeling of disorientation . |