Example sentences of "take half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes half a minute . |
| 2 | It only takes half a second to save that relatively small range . |
| 3 | That small file , and it only takes half a second to combine that relatively small file to there . |
| 4 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 5 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 6 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 7 | She goes back therefrequently , and whenever she returns she takes books to distribute in the villages — they are highly prized in Nigeria , where it takes half an average month 's salary to buy a hardback . |
| 8 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
| 9 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
| 10 | It is reached by fun-boat Le Popeye which takes half an hour , runs four times a day and costs £5 for adults and £2.50 for children . |
| 11 | ‘ It takes half an hour to get anywhere in London on the tube , ’ said Edward . |
| 12 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 13 | erm and the beauty of it is , it only takes , from here it only takes half an hour to get there |
| 14 | unless it takes half an hour , well half an hour anyway |
| 15 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 16 | It only takes half an hour to go to Austria does n't it ? |
| 17 | If there is no issue , but there are parents , or , failing them , brothers and sisters of the whole blood , then the spouse takes half the remaining estate absolutely , the other half going to parents , or being held on the ‘ statutory trusts ’ for brothers and sisters , as the case may be . |
| 18 | ‘ He fences drugs to a policeman , the policeman sells it on , Hilary takes half the money . ’ |
| 19 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But it might take half a minute to combine this range from this relatively large file . |
| 22 | Of course as a plane that could happily take half a dozen buses on board , it 's going to be something of a new experience . |
| 23 | Me , I 'd take half a dozen ski trips a year , spend a lot of time on the beach , have a lot of fun in pubs and clubs ( and , by the by , give Middlesbrough FC enough money to win the Football League and FA Cup ) . |
| 24 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
| 25 | ‘ I went on down the corridor to see my grandfather , wondering what it was that would take half an hour . |
| 26 | It increases the pressure on volunteers and on the phone lines dramatically , because whereas any other sort of information call may take a minute or two , an AIDS call can take half an hour or more because the information may lead into a discussion of the caller 's lifestyle , moral attitudes and emotional needs . |
| 27 | There was a man here once , he could take half an hour to drink a bowl of soup , big as an ox . |
| 28 | It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House . |
| 29 | Where did you go and take half an hour over choosing your books ? |
| 30 | You 'll take half the skin off my forehead ! ’ |