Example sentences of "[conj] it take about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As eating-time continues , the body sends out more and more satiety signals , but it is estimated that it takes about twenty minutes for a meal to have its full effect in filling our stomachs and sending out all the other physical signals of sufficiency . |
2 | I , I , I would suggest that it takes about three months to work out what your best arrangement of categories is going to be . |
3 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
4 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
5 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |