Example sentences of "it have take [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It has taken nearly nine months to finalise all the accounts and each venture takes about six months to plan . |
2 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
3 | This , together with a piece by Mozart 's rival Salieri , was given in the orangery at the Schönbrunn palace on 7 February : it had taken just two weeks to write . |
4 | It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order . |
5 | When Stop Hinkley Expansion members had conducted a test run in 1957 to see just how quickly every house within the Hinkley Point evacuation zone could be visited ( as part of a campaign for sirens to be installed ) it had taken over two hours . |
6 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
7 | It had taken about twenty seconds . |
8 | From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction . |
9 | Jerry informed me later , tearfully , that it had taken almost twenty minutes . |
10 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |
11 | and it 's taken about three weeks to get hold of it so I 'm going to see if it 's ready . |