Example sentences of "take four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 2 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 3 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 4 | which only takes four wheelchairs and of course there 's the drivers of , of the minibus things that bring them . |
| 5 | Which only takes four wheelchairs and of course there 's the drivers of the minibus thing at . |
| 6 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 7 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 8 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 9 | He takes four pills today , two tomorrow , then he stops . |
| 10 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 11 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 12 | It comes up just short of the green , but he can putt it and he says , ‘ I can take four putts from here and still win . ’ |
| 13 | In analysing social episodes , ethogenics has suggested that we should take four elements as guidelines . |
| 14 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 15 | This means climbing the whole route in the dark , and since an efficient descent on frozen snow should only take four hours , then you should be back at the Couvercle Hut sipping beer by 11am . |
| 16 | So if four men take nine hours , nine men will take four hours . |
| 17 | Because it is calculated that a retained crew might take four minutes to get to the station the computer calculated other stations could respond quicker . |
| 18 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 19 | The clean-up could take four years and cost £80 million . |
| 20 | But even this programme of divestment will take four years : it is being done on a stock by stock basis . |
| 21 | It will take four years for trials on the designer tree to be completed . |
| 22 | Biotechnology executives see the plan as a substantial improvement on the present system , in which the government analyses every proposed planting in a process that can take four months . |
| 23 | There is no specific treatment for this disease and complete recovery from any form of hepatitis may take four months or longer . |
| 24 | How long would it take four men to do it ? |
| 25 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
| 26 | In 1955 , while Jimmy Young and Dickie Valentine 's ersatz American crooning dominated the milk bars of Britain , Bill Haley , the John the Baptist of rock ‘ n ’ roll , took four records into the Top Twenty . |
| 27 | It took four visits ( over a seven-week period ) to put an end to her phobia once and for all and to allow her to lead the happy , normal life she so desired . |
| 28 | This preemptive action took four forms . |
| 29 | Golarsa , a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 1989 , took four games running to move 5–4 ahead with her service to follow . |
| 30 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |