Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
2 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
3 Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) .
4 It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems .
5 ‘ If you start with a new house and new furniture it is usually about five years before anybody can get asthma in that house : it takes that time for the mite dung deposits to build up .
6 It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture .
7 But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact .
8 It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds .
9 As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident .
10 Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes .
11 It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored .
12 Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy .
13 After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength .
14 It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three .
15 It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust .
16 It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial .
17 Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’
18 It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph .
19 It took four days for the company to identify the real cause .
20 Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor .
21 It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely .
22 In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop .
23 It took tremendous courage for Roebuck to fight back from his crippling injury , but there is a further chapter to the story .
24 Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores .
25 Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital .
26 Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness .
27 In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital .
28 But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense .
29 It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds .
30 It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians .
  Next page