Example sentences of "[adv] it take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 2 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 3 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 4 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 5 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 6 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 7 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 8 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 9 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 10 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 11 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |