Example sentences of "[noun] it takes a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well look at the speed it takes a disc onto the hard disc ! |
| 2 | You tend to find that you become accustomed to the timing on your local water and that when sailing in a different place it takes a while to learn the timing of a different wave pattern . |
| 3 | You know how it is ; when you lead a hectic , urban life it takes a while to get used to the change of pace — and by the time you do it 's time to go home again . |
| 4 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 5 | Of course it takes a lot more time and skill to get the curve of each return even throughout , so you may find it easier to build a low wall instead . |
| 6 | Getting all this into the tank in the 20 minutes it takes a 50mm ( 2in ) diameter pipe to fill the tank can be physically arduous . |
| 7 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 8 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 9 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 10 | Beginners are often surprised at the length of time it takes a learner to learn something : they tend to think that they need to say something once only for the whole class to have it ready for use a few seconds later . |
| 11 | The electrical problem arises from the finite time it takes a signal to travel across a chip . |
| 12 | The speed of the whole chip is restricted by the time it takes a signal to travel the longest distance . |
| 13 | Well there 's certain parts that just the basic , like you could , I could go down and show you , but there 's others parts it takes a lot of years |