Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 2 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 3 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 4 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 5 | The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents . |
| 6 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 7 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 8 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 9 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |