Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [adj] month " in BNC.

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1 Their trigger fingers are obviously becoming more itchy ; last year they took nine months to fire off 313,000 rounds at demonstrators with a total bill to the Korean taxpayer of $6.7 million .
2 If they take three months you will be financing 25 per cent of your year 's sales and at four months you will be financing 33.3 per cent .
3 Discovering it takes many months .
4 It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work .
5 Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it .
6 It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored .
7 And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 .
8 It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone .
9 They say it takes three months or so to show up .
10 In 1969 , he took six months ' sabbatical leave to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris .
11 An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on .
12 He took nine months off between jobs and dabbled in commune life , with a period at Laurieston Hall , the alternative centre on the Scottish Borders .
13 He took 6 months to regain his confidence that we were n't going to hit him .
14 He took three month 's leave and went to our world assembly at Caux .
15 It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 .
16 It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign .
17 It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union .
18 It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it .
19 It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme .
20 It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday .
21 It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place .
22 The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish .
23 He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films .
24 It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up .
25 So if it took six months to start each scheme up
26 ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way .
27 But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to …
28 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 .
29 They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months .
30 It took several months for that to come home and safe .
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