Example sentences of "[noun] it takes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 3 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 4 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 5 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 6 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |