Example sentences of "it would take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 2 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 3 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 4 | As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour . |
| 5 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 6 | They established it would take five derelict wrecks to build up one flyable aircraft and its reliability would no doubt be poor . |
| 7 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 8 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 9 | It would take all the poise she possessed to spend the evening with Fen , on their new footing as ‘ friends ’ , without revealing her true feelings for him . |
| 10 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 11 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 12 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 13 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 14 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 15 | It would take many pages to list all the ones which have been identified by researchers today , but the phenomenon was not just confined to recordings . |
| 16 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 17 | He added that it would take many more years to establish a healthy pattern of development , especially since there is no communications infrastructure . |
| 18 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 19 | It would take many thousands of years . |
| 20 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 21 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 22 | The Football League accountant told us it would take two or three weeks for the proper tax codes to be sorted out . |
| 23 | ‘ It would take two or three years to develop a concrete plan . ’ |
| 24 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 25 | And he 's the consultant told me , it would take two to three days . |
| 26 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 27 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 28 | In hand to hand combat it would take two , perhaps three , androids to subdue just one of them . |
| 29 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 30 | And he 's the consultant told me , it would take two to three days . |