Example sentences of "would take several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |
| 2 | Besides letting the mix stay hot longer , the job of adding water to a 170o pot until it stopped steaming would take several hours , says Moeri . |
| 3 | It would take several minutes at least to get back to the Bridge . |
| 4 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 5 | One office was burned out completely , and with it some fairly important papers that would take several months , research to restore . |
| 6 | The scale of the proposals meant that the implementation would take several years to complete . |