Example sentences of "it take [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes about the same time to do a simple drawing on a 2D machine as on a drawing board . |
| 2 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 3 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 4 | The present map ( figure 3.1 ) shows an axis of high density extending broadly south-eastwards from the southern Pennines , where it takes in the industrial conurbations of Lancashire , Merseyside , and South Yorkshire , through the Midlands to the London conurbation . |
| 5 | Lavishly illustrated , it takes in the full history of Sally B , the Great Warbirds Air Display and the personalities that have kept the UK 's largest privately-operated warbird going . |
| 6 | A camera with a wide-angle lens is fixed high up on the wall at a point where it takes in the widest angle of the room . |
| 7 | How long does it take to the nearest hour for snails to bonk ? |
| 8 | We er er erm in this country have a very bitter experience with B C C I , it was n't just the knock it took to the regulatory system but I need hardly remind this house there are thousands of people who lost everything they had and that and there are many people who lost everything they had and feel that this house has not taken their concern seriously and it 's something the minister must show that the government is willing to pursue these matters , even if it means introducing primary legislation . |
| 9 | The leaf area/weight was as efficient in the sense that it took about the same time to detect comparable differences . |
| 10 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 11 | As the T1 determines how long it take for the magnetic resonance signal to recover after each image , a long T1 — that is , 1–3 seconds as in water , determines the maximum image frequency achievable in continuous , long duration experiments . |