Example sentences of "it may take " in BNC.

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1 Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed .
2 It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world .
3 It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world .
4 It may take them a little while , but it is important that you contact them to make a housing application and let them know of your needs .
5 Since the London Fox is anxious to preserve the integrity of the market , it may take other measures , such as extending delivery times , to relieve pressure on shorts .
6 The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending .
7 It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks .
8 It may take some time !
9 The man regarded by Peter Swales , at Manchester City , as a little dull , introduced himself at Oakwell by saying : ‘ It may take a little time , but I can assure you that we will get promotion within three years . ’
10 It may take as long as 250 years to reach that height .
11 However , it may take a little planning at first .
12 For example , it may take a large German company only 30 minutes extra production to manufacture products sufficient to cover the Northern Ireland market .
13 Furthermore , whilst the act of worship must normally take place on school premises , it may take place elsewhere on a special occasion .
14 It may take some perseverance to get the appropriate files brought out of store , but it is well worthwhile .
15 It may take time , ’ Morgan warned .
16 It may take weeks or months for clear and credible standards to emerge and you must be willing to update them regularly .
17 It may take time for the resisters to realize that you mean to influence events through them and are not wanting merely to impose your nominal authority over them .
18 Remember , it may take them time to come to terms with your demands .
19 It may take you several weeks to refine the answers .
20 It may take a little time to adjust to anything , from strange surroundings to a new mattress .
21 Accent or dialect can communicate place of residence during acquisition of language ; and it may take time for the listener to become accustomed to a different dialect .
22 Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data .
23 It may take a little practice , there may be a telephone box or a house or two to remove but it 's not as difficult as it sounds .
24 Between 2000 m and 1600 m above sea-level , vegetation recovery is more rapid but only where erosion is at a minimum and even then it may take between 5 and 8 years after seeding .
25 The increasing emphasis on capital projects within an annual budgetary cycle creates problems in that it may take a number of years to acquire and to develop urban sites .
26 It may take time for you to get the knack .
27 The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate .
28 It may take some time before a beginner experiences it , but performance will not become efficient until she does .
29 It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider .
30 This can be a struggle and it may take a while , but as we see all the time among those around us , identity can be achieved , and with tremendous satisfaction and eventual rewards .
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