Example sentences of "it [vb -s] take a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 45 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 2 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 3 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 4 | It has taken a lot of chef 's skills away but it speeds everything up . |
| 5 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 6 | It aims to take a quarter of the market share . |
| 7 | there is an art of doing this , and it does take a bit of practice . |
| 8 | erm it does take a lot of effort to move over to meeting them as individual people , and once you 've understood that they are individual people and you get to know their interests and get to know your common humanity , then that 's the point where you want to get on and do something more , but it 's very difficult to recognise the common humanity , and a lot of |