Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] takes [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 which only takes four wheelchairs and of course there 's the drivers of , of the minibus things that bring them .
2 Which only takes four wheelchairs and of course there 's the drivers of the minibus thing at .
3 Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult .
4 anyway and everybody just takes one look at it and after everybody in the house has taken one look at it it gets thrown in the bin , if it lasts that long .
5 On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible .
6 The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car .
7 Cable should n't be run under a carpet unless it 's suitably protected — it only takes one stiletto heel to bring your network down !
8 Above The vulnerable beauty of Killary harbour : ‘ It only takes one fool to drop a barrel of chemicals , ’ Peter Mantle says , ‘ and we 're all wiped out . ’
9 It only takes one lapse and a match can undergo a total transformation — there must be no slip-ups , ’ adds McGrath .
10 But , it only takes one car !
11 It only takes one fanatic , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said heavily .
12 There 's an old saying : ‘ It only takes one spark to start a fire . ’
13 On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer .
14 It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception .
15 Simply peg out the design , wind on the warp thread and get weaving — it only takes five minutes .
16 Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline .
17 It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate .
18 It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE .
19 It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt .
20 Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters .
21 Yeah , but even with all those things in their favour it still takes fifteen months ?
22 For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane .
23 Er , you can set up these plans to start with a direct debit , which means it probably takes fourteen days to get that sorted with the bank , they 'll allow fourteen days .
24 The rouble has collapsed as Russia 's prices have soared : it now takes 934 roubles to buy a dollar , up from 128 a year ago .
25 Even when the decay is spreading , it typically takes six years to travel through the tooth enamel into the softer dentin , where it becomes a threat to the nerves in the root canal .
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