Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] takes about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is an Italian dish of pasta quills tossed in a hot and spicy tomato sauce which only takes about 20 minutes to make . |
2 | Cos it only takes about six week dun n it ? |
3 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
4 | What I do is I just get a bus at Hertford and walk to Hertford and normally it does n't take long it only takes about ten minutes |
5 | it usually takes about three working days and er |
6 | It usually takes about three people to hold him . |
7 | It now takes about twelve years from the development of a new chemical to the marketing of it as a medicine , so that twelve years is used in testing it — first of all on animals and then on human volunteers and finally on patients . |