Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [modal v] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If some is present ( bearing in mind it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut ) , then continue with sinking wheatgerm .
2 However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair …
3 It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above .
4 Professor Baldassare Conticello , the Soprintendente , estimates that at this rate it will take two generations before the whole of Pompeii is once more in a stable condition .
5 Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme .
6 Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery .
7 Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done .
8 In addition it will distribute 500,000 copies of its Start-up Guide for people starting their own business .
9 In this form it will handle 600 activities ; a memory expansion unit to raise this figure to 3000 activities is expected to be available in 1990 .
10 If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes .
11 A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production .
12 Once Dai succeeded in getting Bernard 's semi-automatic printer in full working order it could produce 5,000 metres of cloth per week .
13 This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients .
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