Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 2 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 3 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 4 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 5 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |