Example sentences of "[pron] take a [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this looks at first to be quite incomprehensible , it is actually quite a friendly little creature and most willing to assist you with either your work or play , as long as you take a short amount of time to learn a few basic commands . |
| 2 | It takes a tremendous amount of organisation . ’ |
| 3 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 4 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |
| 5 | Therefore , as it takes a considerable amount of time to scan the tapes looking for rarely occurring variants , we have selected one particular variable of this kind , which we call meat/mate , and have studied this quantitatively outside the main projects in a different way . |
| 6 | It takes a considerable amount of time to conduct an audit covering the points mentioned above , and this time is expensive in labour costs . |
| 7 | Birdie Mac in the sweet shop told people that it took a great amount of faith these days to realise that God was fair-minded . |
| 8 | However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict . |