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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It usually takes several days for the pain to subside , although it can linger for weeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It always took some while for the Thing to wake up . |
| 10 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 11 | It often takes various stages of etching , proofing and burnishing before a satisfactorily completed plate is ready for final printing and editioning . |
| 12 | He claimed it often took three weeks for written details to arrive on his desk . |
| 13 | But because inflation differentials were relatively small during the 1950s and 1960s , it often took some time for marked divergences in competitiveness to emerge . |
| 14 | ‘ It actually took 7 months of enquiries to locate the right type of pesticide-resistant clear plastic from Germany . ’ |