Example sentences of "it takes [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 2 | It takes 4 days , following a very beautiful rocky and indented coast . |
| 3 | In the case of amniocentesis , it takes two-three weeks to grow the culture from which the presence of handicap can be detected . |
| 4 | From the olive-branch , modern languages have derived a synonym for ‘ peace ’ ; the reason is that the olive is the product par excellence of peaceful cultivation , because it takes fifteen to twenty years to mature , and the destruction of olives was always the first task of an invading army . |
| 5 | It takes fifteen strokes to get going . |
| 6 | That 's probably why it takes fifteen to eighteen months to get a a result . |
| 7 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 8 | It takes 900 separate pieces of oak to build a typical timber framed house . |
| 9 | But it takes hundreds of thousands of years for these processes to turn the sediments into carbonate rock , and meanwhile biological changes , it now seems , play a key role in deterring the fluctuating carbon dioxide balance . |
| 10 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 11 | It takes four place settings and costs £299.90 ( building-in kit extra ) |
| 12 | It takes four AA batteries . |
| 13 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 14 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 15 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |
| 16 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 17 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 18 | It takes four |
| 19 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 20 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 21 | A mechanic for Britax France refused to believe that British installation charges did not include the cost of the seat as well , ‘ It takes 10 or 15 minutes at the most , ’ he said . |
| 22 | It takes 10 minutes to reach the arch , slogging through the filth and scum . |
| 23 | It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed . |
| 24 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 25 | He says , no it takes thirty days to get here . |
| 26 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 27 | It takes two to tango , the United Nations secretary-general observed after pre-war talks with Saddam Hussein . |
| 28 | Missiles were ‘ dogs ’ , the airport was ‘ a swimming pool ’ , Iran was ‘ apple ’ ( in another code sheet it was ‘ Tango ’ , as in ‘ it takes two ’ ) Israel was ‘ banana ’ , the United States was ‘ orange ’ , hostages were ‘ zebras ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It takes two and a half hours each way . |