Example sentences of "take [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Strichen , Banff , where verification of their visit takes little time ; a plaque on a wall reads : ‘ Site of the Black Bull Inn visited by Johnson and Boswell , 1773 ’ . |
| 2 | This stage takes little time after pauses , L1 originals , and the resource person 's voicings have been edited out . |
| 3 | ‘ If you start with a new house and new furniture it is usually about five years before anybody can get asthma in that house : it takes that time for the mite dung deposits to build up . |
| 4 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 5 | Understandably , the extent of the miracle takes some time to penetrate the minds of some of the Israelite people . |
| 6 | As you might imagine , this takes some time and is also completely mental . |
| 7 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 8 | There have been earlier references to the changing and elastic notion of priorities which takes some time to come to terms with . |
| 9 | It actually takes some time before I get to the stage of asking for his name , the date or details of the place where he lives . |
| 10 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 11 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 12 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 13 | Constituency work takes some time and leads to a multiplicity of minor preoccupations but it by no means occupies the entire day . |
| 14 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 15 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 16 | This is because , after a sunbird has sucked out the nectar from a flower , the flower takes some time to replenish its nectaries . |
| 17 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 18 | It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me . |
| 19 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman appreciates that that takes some time . |
| 20 | Which often takes some time . |
| 21 | It takes some time , you may conclude , to become dark blue . ’ |
| 22 | He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time |
| 23 | It takes much time . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly that takes much time , and the GKN Group is to be congratulated for encouraging its senior executives to play such an important part in an organisation that achieves such excellent work in Shropshire . |
| 25 | It takes much time and effort to find recorded music that is suitable as movement accompaniment . |
| 26 | Well the women times the hours , it takes six times eight women hours to do this . |
| 27 | Do not underestimate the time required to prepare a cocktail party — a four-course dinner often takes less time ! |
| 28 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 29 | This is easy to do but please do not try to hurry up the process up as ‘ slow and steady ’ seems to give the best results and takes less time than trying to hurry . |
| 30 | For example , a sales idea will be easier to implement and show a steeper slope ( e.g. takes less time from origination to commercialization ) than one requiring a new technology involving research and development . |