Example sentences of "[noun] it take [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 2 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 3 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 4 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 5 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 6 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 7 | 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 . |