Example sentences of "would take [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siemens AG said last week that it would take longer than previously planned to reduce losses at its computer and also at its semiconductor divisions , and blamed a continued deterioration in market conditions . |
| 2 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |
| 3 | She claimed the decision not to use secondary teachers was because that would take longer than the Scottish Office was prepared to wait . |
| 4 | That would mean it would take more than three weeks to heal . |
| 5 | One union leader estimated last night that the measure would take more than £2 billion out of public sector workers ' pockets , would worsen the recession and cost even more jobs . |
| 6 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 7 | He said if a valuer were to get accurate valuations on all the properties in Milton Street it would take more than one day . |
| 8 | If we were lucky , it would take less than 24 hours . |
| 9 | They show that er an outer northern route , through Harrogate itself , on most stretches of road , would take less than twenty percent of traffic from the existing road . |