Example sentences of "it [adv] take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline .
2 It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate .
3 The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States .
4 EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer .
5 It usually takes several days for the pain to subside , although it can linger for weeks .
6 Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters .
7 After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly .
8 After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India .
9 That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation .
10 It always took some while for the Thing to wake up .
11 It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine .
12 It was circular in shape and we could fit it up to take any number of wheels — three or four pairs if need be .
13 It often takes various stages of etching , proofing and burnishing before a satisfactorily completed plate is ready for final printing and editioning .
14 He claimed it often took three weeks for written details to arrive on his desk .
15 But because inflation differentials were relatively small during the 1950s and 1960s , it often took some time for marked divergences in competitiveness to emerge .
16 It actually took 7 months of enquiries to locate the right type of pesticide-resistant clear plastic from Germany . ’
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