Example sentences of "[conj] it take six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 2 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 3 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 4 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 5 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 6 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 7 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 9 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |