Example sentences of "[noun pl] take several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Farmers took several payments for each load of produce and inflated their yield reports . |
| 3 | All adjudications took several months and none was successful . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Burton by all accounts took several miles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cross-curricular groups take several forms , from particular task groups ( eg to provide guidelines on homework policy , to review the school 's assessment policy ) , through more long-term tasks of working parties ( eg equal opportunities : gender ) to standing committees ( eg TVEI steering group ) . |
| 10 | The contracts take several forms . |
| 11 | Their preparations took several forms . |
| 12 | Probably a week 's notice is sufficient , with the photographs taken several days before the press release is to be distributed . |