Example sentences of "take only [art] [det] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
| 2 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 3 | The map shown in Figure 4.1 took only a few minutes to produce , and is easily amended and redrawn . |
| 4 | It took only a few minutes to pack their belongings . |
| 5 | It took only a few minutes to run to the kitchen and request Agnes Diggory to take Lady Merchiston 's luncheon tray straight upstairs when it was ready , and then Theda passed out of the house into the early warmth of a sunny April day , Hector charging ahead . |
| 6 | It took only a few seconds to order six droids and a goods transporter to the 65th level cargo bay . |
| 7 | As the launch and the bows of the sinking yacht were now almost level it took only a few seconds to transfer the six survivors — another had joined the group of five that Talbot had seen — aboard the launch . |
| 8 | She missed two games before finding it behind a cushion , but then took only a few days to call house on number 52 in game 230 . |
| 9 | There had been no problem in finding a matching replacement for the cut piece ; a hardware shop in Inverness had supplied it , and it had taken only a few minutes to fit . |