Example sentences of "it take [adj] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 2 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 3 | it takes six bleeding hours to think about it let alone six minutes . |
| 4 | Two were unrolling a 30-foot banner which read ‘ It takes 53 dumb animals to make this coat but only one to wear it . ’ |
| 5 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 6 | In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ . |
| 7 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |