Example sentences of "it takes [det] time " in BNC.

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1 It takes much time .
2 It takes much time and effort to find recorded music that is suitable as movement accompaniment .
3 ‘ If you start with a new house and new furniture it is usually about five years before anybody can get asthma in that house : it takes that time for the mite dung deposits to build up .
4 As the Governor observed , it takes more time to change attitudes , but he thought that progress was being made here too and that the new recruitment would accelerate the process .
5 Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now .
6 Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt .
7 A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter .
8 It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial .
9 Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences .
10 We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off .
11 I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’
12 The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’
13 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
14 Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’
15 It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me .
16 It takes some time , you may conclude , to become dark blue . ’
17 He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time
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