Example sentences of "and it take [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 2 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 7 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 8 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 9 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 10 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 11 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 12 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 13 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 14 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 15 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 16 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 17 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 18 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |