Example sentences of "take three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless she 's took three quarters of turkey back . |
| 2 | This takes three forms : ( 1 ) the rupture of credit relations , ( 2 ) the breakdown of national and local government ; and ( 3 ) the breakdown of the exchange of material use-values between town and countryside . |
| 3 | Learning : In this second approach , learning takes three forms . |
| 4 | It takes three generations to make a gentleman , they say ; but the sons and daughters of impoverished immigrants into London in Victorian times were only one remove from their humble roots elsewhere — every reason , therefore , to collect around themselves the trappings of grandeur . |
| 5 | It takes three pages to demolish Philip . |
| 6 | The ramshackle bus-boat back to Tekek around the northern tip of the island takes three hours , the same as the walk . |
| 7 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 8 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |
| 9 | I I knew it 'd be longer , but it does n't take fucking , takes three hours to do one song ! |
| 10 | Right so that was C one , C two it is a hundred and fifty miles from Hereford to London by rail Hereford is north of Cheltenham , it 's going up from Cheltenham is Hereford the first train in the morning takes three hours for the journey what 's its average speed ? |
| 11 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 12 | That takes three days and I 'm also getting the combining done . ’ |
| 13 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 14 | This initial training takes three days — two are residential and one based in Hanover House . |
| 15 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 16 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 17 | He must never be left in such a position that he can carry on the habit , he must be made to forget it ; this sometimes takes three months , or longer in the worst cases … |
| 18 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 19 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 20 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 21 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 22 | Right well it may be of course you see on the other hand the accountancy takes three years . |
| 23 | Naturally , if the system takes three years to implement , substantial change is inevitable ! |
| 24 | The honours programme lasts four years while the ordinary degree takes three years . |
| 25 | It takes three years to become a qualified craftsman , said Mr Rowney , who trains wall builders at Botton village , near Danby , in the Esk Valley . |
| 26 | For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane . |
| 27 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 28 | There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks . |
| 29 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 30 | The entire parasitic life cycle usually takes three weeks , but under certain circumstances many of the ingested L3 become arrested in development at the early fourth larval stage ( EL4 ) for periods of up to six months . |