Example sentences of "[conj] it take [num] week " in BNC.

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1 The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy .
2 What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks .
3 Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there .
4 Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds !
5 We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia !
6 The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks .
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