Example sentences of "[verb] it takes [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each
2 They say it takes three months or so to show up .
3 It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights .
4 And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted .
5 , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd .
6 I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across .
7 ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . )
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