Example sentences of "take [adv] long as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes as long as six or seven years and colossal sums of money ( some estimates suggest in excess of £10 million ) to put a new compound on the market . |
| 2 | I thought , I did n't think that it takes as long as that . |
| 3 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 4 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
| 5 | It may take as long as 250 years to reach that height . |
| 6 | The-troops also slept in the lavatories — a very awkward situation , this , as sometimes , if there was an air-raid , the train crawled and the journey could take as long as sixteen hours . |
| 7 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 8 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 9 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 10 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 11 | I have walked it in a day , but it can take as long as a week to complete . |
| 12 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 13 | It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time . |
| 14 | The coarse grist can take as long as six months , by which time many plants that are intended to benefit will have long since gone . |
| 15 | First you are told that you can take as long as you like to put the counters in the jar . |
| 16 | ‘ Suddenly we had a situation where money for the studio was no object : we could take as long as we liked . |
| 17 | The process may take 5 minutes , it may take as long as 15 . |
| 18 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 19 | Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail . |
| 20 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
| 21 | I know that a Labour Government will be returned and I am sure that that Government will not take as long as from 1986 to the present time , as this Government have , to do something constructive about changing the law and bringing in legislation that could be enforced throughout the country . |
| 22 | It is our experience that from appointment to completion , the sale of a company can take as long as six months or , perhaps , longer . |
| 23 | If accepted , the appeal process could take as long as three years , according to reports . |
| 24 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 25 | It 's gon na take as long as I thought cos I have to format it and install it . |
| 26 | We had trips in those days that took as long as three months which not many people would undertake now . |
| 27 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 28 | But this mink sometimes took as long as two hours to catch one . |
| 29 | If a solicitor took as long as forty hours over it . |
| 30 | But , despite her hunger , she took as long as possible over the simple meal , desperately trying to stave off the moment when they would have nothing to do except talk or sleep . |