Example sentences of "would take a long " in BNC.

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1 a long time it 'd take a long time .
2 They 'd take a long time to dry would n't they , then , on the sticks and that
3 The second alternative would take a long time to achieve .
4 Then he would move to another par of the bed , away from the cold wet patch that would take a long time to dry and leave a stiff yellow stain on the mattress .
5 Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement .
6 The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access .
7 Once food has cooled to 5°C or colder , if any food poisoning bacteria are present most will grow only very slowly and it would take a long time for them to reach large enough numbers to cause a problem .
8 It would take a long , long time to heal , if ever .
9 The Eradicator may well be the solution ; tests conducted by Ray have certainly proved encouraging , and it would take a long string of coincidences to attain the results he has achieved by any other means .
10 The English host was able to cross unhindered , although it would take a long time to do so in its entirety .
11 Given the long times required to charge the larger rods , you can see that after getting a first qualitative result with the smallest rods within a few weeks , a proper quantitative analysis to test the variation with rod diameter and current , and so establish the nature of the effect would take a long time .
12 Starving the defenders out seemed to be the only course , and that would take a long time .
13 That is when we realised that the materialistic gap between the rich and poor was indeed nothing compared to the wide gulf in understanding , and that the understanding of health problems in this country would take a long painstaking process of re-accumulating the evidence .
14 She helped me as much as she could , but I knew it would take a long time to reach Estella 's level .
15 This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did .
16 It would take a long
17 However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out .
18 It would take a long time to get our grill out because I do n't think it would move any more .
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