Example sentences of "[adv] it takes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 2 | The ‘ now ’ here instead corresponds to the ‘ now ’ on & alpha Centauri in 4.5 years ' time , because that is how long it takes light to get from here to there . |
| 3 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 4 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |
| 5 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 6 | Thus it takes considerable courage and persistence at times for the carer to press the needs of the dependent , let alone her/his personal needs . |
| 7 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 8 | Anyway it takes more . |
| 9 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 10 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 11 | Well it takes all th , no it 's all tied in with the plumbing you see , it 's there and everything . |
| 12 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 13 | Luckily it takes more than swirling snow and an Arctic wind to blow Swindon off course these days . |
| 14 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 15 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 16 | ‘ Over-involved ’ is a derogatory label still used by professionals to describe anxious , supportive relatives , yet it takes extraordinary judgment and sensitivity to manage a close relative 's abnormal beliefs and behaviour in a way which neither colludes with pathological beliefs nor alienates the sufferer . |
| 17 | Yet it takes two to compromise . |
| 18 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
| 19 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |