Example sentences of "it may take a " in BNC.

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1 The man regarded by Peter Swales , at Manchester City , as a little dull , introduced himself at Oakwell by saying : ‘ It may take a little time , but I can assure you that we will get promotion within three years . ’
2 However , it may take a little planning at first .
3 For example , it may take a large German company only 30 minutes extra production to manufacture products sufficient to cover the Northern Ireland market .
4 It may take a little time to adjust to anything , from strange surroundings to a new mattress .
5 It may take a little practice , there may be a telephone box or a house or two to remove but it 's not as difficult as it sounds .
6 The increasing emphasis on capital projects within an annual budgetary cycle creates problems in that it may take a number of years to acquire and to develop urban sites .
7 This can be a struggle and it may take a while , but as we see all the time among those around us , identity can be achieved , and with tremendous satisfaction and eventual rewards .
8 Like study of the forest , it may take a generation to quantify the effect on fish stock .
9 If there is some improvement , persist for another month or two — the Candida is slowly dying of starvation , and it may take a little while to finish it off entirely .
10 A few young people are really ‘ stuck ’ on glue or products and it may take a long time to help them .
11 It may take a little longer to speechread what you say .
12 There are frictions in the markets for capital , labour , and products , and it may take a long time for changes in the pattern of demand to work their way through the system .
13 It may take a few more years to get there , plus some pretty hard negotiation .
14 But , like showbusiness , it may take a year before EuroDisney polishes up its act .
15 It may take a long time discussing the parents ' child-rearing philosophy and even discussing their own childhood experiences of discipline to unearth the cause of these deep-seated feelings .
16 It may take a little while for the bowel motions to become settled into a regular pattern .
17 Conversely , it may take a great deal of time before the vendor actually makes money on the deal .
18 It may take a stake in the venture .
19 It may take a few years yet , and some unlikely cohesion in banks ' own lobbying .
20 But not all badgers instantly discover a taste for peanuts : it may take a few visits on your behalf before they catch on that these small pellets are good to eat .
21 It may take a while before the clients cotton on to what is happening .
22 It may take a bit of imagination for , for some of the , some of you but what do you think ?
23 I want to have you about the house because I brought you a little souvenir from New York , only it may take a while to get it out of my suitcase .
24 So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it .
25 It may take a couple more hundred years , a thousand , but we will get there .
26 It may take a week or two .
27 It may take a couple of minutes , since one arm is temporarily out of order .
28 Magazines like NI do change public opinion , though it may take a long , long time .
29 ROHITA looked special after blasting clear in the final furlong for a three-lengths win in the Payne and Gunter Fillies Stakes at Goodwood and it may take a good one to stop her in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot .
30 Or it may take a more structured approach drawn from cognitive therapy techniques .
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