Example sentences of "[pron] may take [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important that you negotiate with a man you trust as he has to agree to practise safer sex from test to pregnancy — which may take a considerable time . |
| 2 | A few young people are really ‘ stuck ’ on glue or products and it may take a long time to help them . |
| 3 | There are frictions in the markets for capital , labour , and products , and it may take a long time for changes in the pattern of demand to work their way through the system . |
| 4 | It may take a long time discussing the parents ' child-rearing philosophy and even discussing their own childhood experiences of discipline to unearth the cause of these deep-seated feelings . |
| 5 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | It may take a little time to adjust to anything , from strange surroundings to a new mattress . |
| 8 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |