Example sentences of "say it [modal v] take [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE United Nations dealt a new blow to the starving millions in Somalia last night by saying it could take three weeks to stop bandits raiding food supplies . |
| 2 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 3 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 4 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 5 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |