Example sentences of "[verb] take [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a business , for example , only interest on loans is put through the profit and loss account as an operating expense ; principal repayments involve taking one balance sheet item , i.e. cash , and using it to reduce another , i.e. long-term liability . |
| 2 | That was before his shattering injury that has taken 16 months off his career . |
| 3 | The South African professional Scott Mitchley , has taken 16 league wickets so far with his medium pace bowling . |
| 4 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 5 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 6 | The achievement has taken 17 months and covers nearly every aspect of Atlas Copco 's business including installation , service schemes , training and inspection testing . |
| 7 | Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m . |
| 8 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 9 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 10 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 11 | Blue Planet has taken five years to complete and is made on the Imax ( largest screen ) format . |
| 12 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 13 | anyway and everybody just takes one look at it and after everybody in the house has taken one look at it it gets thrown in the bin , if it lasts that long . |
| 14 | The dog will feel that he has taken one step up the ladder if he is allowed into your sleeping quarters . |
| 15 | The argument that size and security are related has taken two forms . |
| 16 | Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years , most attention going to the creation of women 's lavatories and space for tea urns . |
| 17 | Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years , most attention going to the creation of women 's lavatories and space for tea urns . |
| 18 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 19 | It all left yesterday 's would-be refugees furious at the latest delay in an evacuation that has taken two months to negotiate . |
| 20 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 21 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 22 | The whole thing has taken four years of heartache and worry . |
| 23 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 24 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 25 | The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders . |
| 26 | In its first six months , the Newham Independent Counselling Service project has taken seven referrals from the SSD , two women referred themselves , and one came via her family . |
| 27 | The in-depth report by Philip Mackie , epidemiologist with Darlington Health Authority , has taken seven months to complete and reveals head injuries and poisoning among the most common type of childhood accident . |
| 28 | It has taken 876,000 bricks , 24,300 cubic metres of concrete , 700 concrete piles , and 3,500 tonnes of reinforcement to build the Cornmill . |
| 29 | The report has taken 6 months to prepare . |
| 30 | He has taken three characters to make the basis of this chapter . |