Example sentences of "it take [num] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes one calorie– of heat energy to raise one gram of water through one degree Celsius . |
| 2 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 3 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 4 | To get legal authorization to open a newspaper kiosk or a small store , it takes 43 days of paperwork and costs $590 in fees and lost work time . |
| 5 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 6 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 7 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 9 | To take a lorry load of goods from Leeds , it took 4 hours to Liverpool docks and 2½ hours to Hull docks before the motorways were opened — and ‘ time is money ’ . |
| 10 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 11 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 12 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 13 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 14 | It took five months of telephone calls , letters and faxes to Dr Neil Sontag , before a replacement set arrived , only to find that they were the same , unusable version . |
| 15 | It took two members of staff about ten minutes of tugging to remove the anemone , by which time it had become ragged and contracted . |
| 16 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 17 | ‘ It took ten minutes to film and I was actually on TV for about six seconds . |
| 18 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |
| 19 | It took three pints of home brew , each , before we stopped scratching . |
| 20 | It took 19 litres of paint and cellulose for the coachwork , which matched the original perfectly . |
| 21 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |
| 22 | It took 30 minutes of argument , a great deal of soothing of apparently hurt professional pride , and not a little money to persuade Chela that it was time to call it a night , alone . |
| 23 | It took 30 rolls of wallpaper and I knew it would have to last . ’ |
| 24 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |