Example sentences of "[adj] it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer . |
| 2 | When the financial conditions turn hostile it takes all the luck in the world for businesses to stay alive , much less prosper . |
| 3 | In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ . |
| 4 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 6 | This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , ’ said Simon , ‘ she 's so thick it takes all the fun out of it . |
| 8 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 9 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 10 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |