Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] take [num] [noun] " 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 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 4 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 5 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 6 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |