Example sentences of "takes [prep] one " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It takes about one hour for the mite to bury itself in the skin . |
| 2 | For most people , it takes about one hour for the liver to reduce blood alcohol by 15ml/100ml . |
| 3 | It takes about one hour for the alcohol from a drink to reach its peak concentration in the blood . |
| 4 | The camcorder takes about one second to begin recording after you press the button . |
| 5 | Backing up your data is vital , so book a lunch date if you choose level two , because it takes about one minute per megabyte of hard disk space to set up . |
| 6 | It is reckoned that Step 1 normally takes about one year to grasp and accept in its full significance . |
| 7 | It takes about one month to commission each machine with the next one being delivered in October and another before the end of the year , when once again Stoddard 's team will be visiting the States . |
| 8 | In other words , in the time it takes for one murder on the crime clock , six workers have died ‘ just trying to make a living ’ ! ’ |
| 9 | Between your two easy days , find a hill that takes from one and a half to two minutes to run . |
| 10 | The event takes in one lap of the famous TT course and 12 laps of a seven miles circuit , coming down each time along the promenade . |
| 11 | The finale he takes at one of the fastest speeds on record ( 1'08 ’ ) , creating , without recourse to pedal haze and with only the slightest dynamic gradations within Chopin 's requested sotto voce e legato , as haunting an impression of the eerie intangibility of eddying ‘ wind over graves ’ as you could ever hope to hear from human fingers . |