Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Next up , two Sports 2000 car were waiting to take unsuspecting victims on two laps with a professional driver .
2 The relocation is expected to take two weeks .
3 The work is expected to take six months .
4 Work is expected to take several years .
5 The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing .
6 Without computer modelling , the engineer is forced to take short cuts by evaluating fewer design options .
7 The tunnelling of Phase 1 of the project from the gorge site is scheduled to take three years to three and a half years to complete .
8 Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit .
9 The procedure is expected to take 2 hrs .
10 If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ?
11 The operation is expected to take several months .
12 A conceptual model is constructed to take these factors into account , and used to make a comparison with the existing situation .
13 Each trainee is encouraged to take optional modules relevant to his or her placement .
14 The case is expected to take three days .
15 The whole route is estimated to take eight hours but there will be checkpoints along the way for refreshments .
16 If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs .
17 The survey is expected to take two months to complete and will be carried out through questionnaires sent to venture capitalists and advisers throughout the EC .
18 The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred .
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