Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb mod] take two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme .
3 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 .
4 Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done .
5 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 .
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