Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to take [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some boats are reported to take 500–600 animals during a 3-month season . |
| 2 | ‘ Benjamin Barnett and Dave Matthews compliment each other well up front , and we are looking to take 12 points from the last eight games and finish mid-table , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 3 | They said they 're going to take ten days to make up their mind Lynda so we 'll give them the benefit of the doubt . |
| 4 | The patient had been told to take two packets daily . |
| 5 | If the White Paper becomes an Act of Parliament , the whole of the M5 and nearly all of the M1 will be widened to take four lanes in each direction . |
| 6 | The work is expected to take six months . |
| 7 | Demolition of the flats is expected to take six weeks . |
| 8 | The survey is expected to take two months to complete and will be carried out through questionnaires sent to venture capitalists and advisers throughout the EC . |
| 9 | The relocation is expected to take two weeks . |
| 10 | The Argus will leave with the helicopters on board next week and is expected to take seven days to reach the Croatian port of Split . |
| 11 | Well 204/20–1 was spudded by the drilling rig Ocean Valiant on September 14 and is expected to take 35 days . |
| 12 | The case is expected to take three days . |
| 13 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit . |
| 14 | In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work . |
| 15 | The procedure is expected to take 2 hrs . |
| 16 | It 's expected to take two months just to identify and catalogue the antiques so they can be matched with items reported stolen.Two men are helping police with their inquiries . |
| 17 | It 's expected to take 9 months to complete . |
| 18 | If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs . |
| 19 | Of course , as a scientist who 's planning an expedition that 's going to take 200 years to get underway , Charles has his critics within the Oxford establishment . |
| 20 | But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not . |
| 21 | The tunnelling of Phase 1 of the project from the gorge site is scheduled to take three years to three and a half years to complete . |
| 22 | The whole route is estimated to take eight hours but there will be checkpoints along the way for refreshments . |
| 23 | The whole programme of taking the aircraft apart is estimated to take eight weeks . |
| 24 | The relocation will be in three phases , each of which is planned to take eighteen months . |
| 25 | The ANC president , Nelson Mandela , who has been ordered to take two weeks of complete rest in advance of the election campaign , arrived unexpectedly at the conference . |
| 26 | At 1800 hours on 28 June the brigade had been ordered to take three positions which formed a bridgehead from which the enemy could further develop his attack . |
| 27 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 28 | The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred . |
| 29 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 30 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |