Example sentences of "take a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would take a time to catch and then she could heat the water & cook Alisdair 's breakfast . |
| 2 | And she said well it does take a time for the vans to dry out . |
| 3 | When the start of the track has to be detected , this will be modified ; the track index start will have been found — taking a time R/2 — and the index entry will have been located , read and processed during a single revolution ( in most cases ) . |
| 4 | In n it taking a time ? |
| 5 | What I hear , people talk to me , took a time but they do , is that the Front was just a vehicle for him , that there were no deeply held principles in it , more that he was in love with the danger , the risk of arrest . |
| 6 | Not long ago , she said in his head , one comes to rely on one 's bit of fun , and he tried her with a joke or two , but the old happy creasing of the face took a time to occur . |
| 7 | Grammatical change is slower but readily discernible if we take a time span of four hundred years . |
| 8 | If you take a time exposure of the stars with a static camera you just get streaks , because of the Earth 's movement , and I should make the device follow the stars at the correct speed , you can get an awful lot of stars that 's completely invisible to the naked eye . |
| 9 | There was no play in the other semi-final yesterday , after Karpov 's decision to take a time out ; he leads Yusupov 2 ½ -1 ½ . |
| 10 | Used to take a time just to get home at night ! |