Example sentences of "it would take [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 2 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 3 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 4 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 5 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 6 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 7 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 8 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 9 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 10 | It would take several minutes at least to get back to the Bridge . |
| 11 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 12 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |