Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun sg] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the wealthy , a nameless businessman , takes a short cut one day through the valley where the low-lifers hang out . |
| 2 | It can take a good typist ten minutes to re-type an A4 page of text , and a poor one even longer . |
| 3 | At present , once an employee has reached the top band of his grade , performance points can take a Unified Grade 7 employee 's pay up to £34,667 . |
| 4 | The affair took a sinister turn four months after the investigation began when a young American banker , due to appear in court on fraud charges connected with offshore banking transactions , died in mysterious circumstances . |
| 5 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |