Example sentences of "this [vb mod] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may take a number of different forms : |
| 2 | This 'll take a while to brown anyway . |
| 3 | This 'll take an hour to cook . ’ |
| 4 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 5 | This might take a year or so for planks an inch or two thick and seven years for large oak ship 's timbers . |
| 6 | This could take a while . |
| 7 | This could take an hour at the first interview and need several interviews after that . |
| 8 | If the books really were priceless , Mungo thought , this would take a century . |
| 9 | Their current goal is to win an entry into Crufts , but maybe this will take a couple of years . |
| 10 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 11 | First he has an Idea , say a sweet Melachrino-type string sound ; he then decides this will take an orchestra of say 24 players ( sidemen ) and then chooses a suitable conductor and arranger . |
| 12 | This can take a multiplicity of forms including signals , gestures , speech , letters , telex , telephone , morse code , fax , television and radio . |
| 13 | This can take a lot of ti me as it must proceed at the person 's own pace and not fit within the time span that the helper finds convenient or thinks sufficient . |