Example sentences of "[adv] it take [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base .
2 Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’
3 Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes .
4 Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg .
5 Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty .
6 Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty .
7 So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies .
8 stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that .
9 Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome .
10 Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him
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