Example sentences of "[noun] it take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it .
2 ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown .
3 In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital .
4 In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part .
5 But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know
6 Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes .
7 But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water .
8 Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover .
9 With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income .
10 When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark .
11 In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable .
12 This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes .
13 Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries .
14 With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers .
15 In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved .
16 But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped .
17 But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself .
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