Example sentences of "[conj] it may take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 2 | Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data . |
| 3 | In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit . |
| 4 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 5 | Except , of course , for the fact that it may take some while before the matter particle falls into the black hole — in which case the Universe has a temporary and minor energy surplus . |
| 6 | Bear in mind that it may take some time for the police to arrive . |
| 7 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 8 | ‘ The yacht is a rather slow model of course , so it may take some time for you to die . ’ |
| 9 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 10 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 11 | It is a mistake to be too ambitious to begin with , for when 50 or so near maturity they will require lots of food and it may take some gathering . |
| 12 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 13 | Acrylic tends to dry less opaque than it look when wet , and it may take repeated overpainting when thin layers of colour are used to cover completely something underneath . |
| 14 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 15 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 16 | But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator . |
| 17 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 18 | The potential mobility of non-motorized persons is also enhanced , though it may take some time ( and , probably , more measures ) for the modal split to change significantly . |
| 19 | Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller . |