Example sentences of "it take the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 2 | Inflation is one of th , or yeah , not inflation itself , but the premium will go up by A , the new cost of the benefit what else would it take the new premium rate |
| 3 | It took the combined brain power of the teachers quite a few weeks to arrive at this simple routine for getting into Friday assembly . |
| 4 | It took the formidable Madrid neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal to see the significance of Golgi 's achievement ( he too got a Nobel Prize , though Golgi apparently refused to accept Cajal 's interpretation — or even to speak to him ) . |
| 5 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |