Example sentences of "and it take [num] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 6 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 7 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 8 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |