Example sentences of "[coord] it take [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 2 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 3 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 4 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 5 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 6 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 7 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 8 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 9 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 10 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 11 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 12 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 13 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 14 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 15 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 16 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 17 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 18 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 19 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 20 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 21 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 22 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 23 | but it took five years |
| 24 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 25 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |