Example sentences of "it take [adj] minute " in BNC.

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1 It takes 10 minutes to reach the arch , slogging through the filth and scum .
2 Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty .
3 , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd .
4 It takes forty minutes to walk from Dhang station to the farm along a road which starts as a stony track then turns to mud .
5 Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes .
6 It took four minutes to connect .
7 The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know .
8 It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay .
9 It took five minutes to establish the link , and for the operator to get out Delaney 's short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the drop zone .
10 A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers .
11 But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ?
12 It took thirty minutes for them to locate a frayed section of the Bridge ; force its weave apart with clamps and keep the gap open with plastic crates .
13 So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies .
14 But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed .
15 It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body .
16 In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable .
17 It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage , with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary .
18 It took ten minutes to film and I was actually on TV for about six seconds .
19 Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation .
20 JB : There 's a bit of painting there on the wall that I rather like — well in fact I do like it , it took 20 minutes .
21 It took 20 minutes , four helpers , a Kama Sutra repositioning and the removal of one ski .
22 The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away .
23 It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty .
24 ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life .
25 It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over .
26 Twenty to anyway , gone twenty to when I was at , it took forty minutes .
27 It took several minutes to gather them back and put them under starter 's orders .
28 It took several minutes , and then suddenly another wave pulled the last line free , unwinding from her thigh , to relinquish its grip like some long thin tentacle .
29 It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage .
30 It took several minutes before they were ready to leave , and even then Mabel hovered in the doorway , saying plaintively , ‘ You wo n't be long , will you ?
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