Example sentences of "[noun sg] it take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 6 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 9 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 10 | 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 . |