Example sentences of "take [pron] [num] " in BNC.

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1 I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly .
2 ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song .
3 Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour .
4 ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’
5 And it takes them twelve hours to do this job .
6 So the zinc comes along pushes the hydrogen out takes its two charges off it as well
7 ‘ It takes you two days and half of two nights to find out that you do n't know ? ’
8 Well that takes you two up I suppose Julie , been wondering about you lately darling
9 That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour .
10 Cor even if it takes you three days !
11 BLUE PLANET takes you 350 miles into space to view the breathtaking sight of our world , surrounded by the narrow , fragile band of atmosphere that supports life on earth .
12 I think it takes you forty five minutes to listen to it all back again .
13 No I have n't had that yet my ten thousand for passing er she takes her two hundred though from my ten thousand
14 But this means to say that he has no rule that takes him one way rather than another in a new case .
15 a driver says he 's got not idea how fast he goes … it takes him hundred of hours to get ready and then they come out and smash it up … there must be some logic he says …
16 I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ?
17 It only takes him twenty five minutes ?
18 Make sure he takes it three times a day .
19 It takes it twenty four hours to turn round .
20 And one of the servants takes his one talent and he uses it and he works very hard with it and he buys erm raw goods and he makes things and he he a makes his one talent up into ten .
21 I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair
22 The satisfaction in the City camp was aptly summed up by manager Joe O'Sullivan in his after the match comment : ‘ These are three points which takes us two short of the 40 mark , which I think will be enough . ’
23 It only takes us three quarters of an hour .
24 They estimated that it would take them four months to build the cells , the measuring equipment and constant temperature baths .
25 It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough .
26 This afternoon we 'll it says in the instruction , at the end of every third tape change the batteries , so er , we 'll take them two out tomorrow
27 If Christians can agree 25 December as the supposed date for an alleged birth it should not take them 2,000 years to agree a date for an alleged death .
28 That way they 're saving money on a night out , they 're gon na save on er actual depot hours , where it 's like taking us sort of like ten and eleven hours , it 's only gon na take them eight , nine to do that cos they 're there , they 're on top of the job .
29 They estimate it will take them 20,000 man-hours to get the aircraft flying and ready for the round-the-world trip .
30 Their route will take them 230 miles across the Nares Straight towards west Greenland .
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