Example sentences of "[pron] would take [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would take three classes and exercise at least another 12 hours each week . |
| 2 | This processing , which would take 2,000 hours in the Mixing Department , where labour is paid £12 per hour , would save the company additional purchasing costs of £5,000 . |
| 3 | The scene in the book where Robyn arrives at the factory for the first time and goes and has a conversation with Wilcox , that 's four pages , which would take 15 minutes in playing time if you acted it out . |
| 4 | Imagine you did the entire 45-mile journey at 70 mph , you would take 41 minutes . |
| 5 | Drive it at 90 mph — and you would take 36 minutes . |
| 6 | We would take 6 men at random from the 30 men , and 4 women at random from the 20 women . |
| 7 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 8 | But perhaps it would not come , after all , perhaps they would take one look at Mrs Thorne and refuse her admittance into a ward of lunatic old ladies . |
| 9 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 10 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 11 | Because otherwise you would n't be able to it 'd take three days to clear so that 's the best way to do it . |
| 12 | And he would take one ear and then the other ear and pull it through the slots on the bonnet . |
| 13 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 14 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 15 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 16 | As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour . |
| 17 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 18 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 19 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 20 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 21 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 22 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 23 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 24 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 25 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 26 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 27 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 28 | Echo Logic is n't rushing towards the Intel iAPX-86 market , estimating it would take nine months and four or five dedicated folks working on it . |
| 29 | It would take six hours to examine all thousand stones . |
| 30 | Love managed his second successive 68 , adding : ‘ We were warned that play would be slow here but I could n't believe it would take six hours . |