Example sentences of "it take [adj] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the radar , I understand er it takes three hundred days to produce and a hundred days er is believed to be taken up in travelling from one site to another . |
| 2 | It takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit is the correct term for going round something , to orbit the earth . |
| 3 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 4 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 5 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
| 6 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 7 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |