Example sentences of "it can take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 2 | If some is present ( bearing in mind it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut ) , then continue with sinking wheatgerm . |
| 3 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 4 | Once a laser has put molecules into a repulsive , electronically excited state , it can take 100–1,000 femoseconds for the species to dissociate into independent fragments . |
| 5 | The Swindon Works only closed in 1986 and since it can take many years for asbestos to affect people 's health , she expects to be dealing with similar cases well into the next century . |
| 6 | It can take several minutes for the Goblin to pick his target , at which point he folds his wings back and starts to plummet , yelling wildly as the speed of his descent drives his small Goblin brain wild . |
| 7 | It can take several days of fine weather to dry out . |
| 8 | As we have already seen , it can take several years for a product to come on stream , let alone break even in reported accounts ; seven or more years is possible in some industries ( see Tomkins et al. , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | The ponderous patent application process seems to be unsuited to a fast- moving technology as it can take several years from initial application before a patent is finally granted . |
| 10 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 11 | It can take large numbers of rabbits that live above the ground in dense woodland and it can do that same job in wooded areas where ferreting is not allowed because of other interests . |
| 12 | Since form and function are related to living things , when the information in an illustration is incorrect it can take more work in the long run to get the thing to look right . |
| 13 | It can take some comfort from the rise of 7.5 per cent in its vote and from the fact that it came second to Labour in so many seats and is at last beginning to nibble at Labour 's huge majorities in the Central Belt . |
| 14 | When friends fall out the mess can be considerable and it can take some time for the wounds to heal . |