Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The process takes several months but eventually , when the tube is complete , a sperm cell is produced from the remains of the pollen grain . |
| 8 | He says that the polishing takes several months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The ill-effects of state interference in the economy take several forms . |
| 14 | During the 1980s the Conservative government took several steps to increase tax relief on gifts with this in mind . |
| 15 | Fearful of any repetition of the urban riots , the American government took several measures in the late 1960s to strengthen its control capabilities . |
| 16 | The operation took several days to complete . |
| 17 | Respite care takes several forms : the challenge is to match these forms with needs . |
| 18 | During the war military training took several hours of the school curriculum and this did not end with the armistice . |
| 19 | This contribution takes several forms , all of which are complex and contested . |
| 20 | He remembers vividly being impressed by their depth , the holes being close-boarded and strutted , the construction taking several weeks to complete . |
| 21 | The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 22 | Fraser 's fork took several forms , as I say : or one might prefer to say that there was more than one fork to reckon with . |