Example sentences of "take a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's expensive , useless as an insulator when wet and takes a very long time to dry . |
| 2 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 3 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 4 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 5 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 6 | Only when the conditions mature for the wide use of mechanical farming for the organization of collective farms and for the socialist reform of rural areas er can the need for a rich peasant economy cease and this will take a somewhat lengthy time to achieve . |
| 7 | This may mean that a file which operates well under normal conditions , i.e. many home records being accessed but few synonyms , may take a relatively long time to process sequentially . |
| 8 | The effects of hormones may themselves take a very long time to appear . |
| 9 | Litigation , on the other hand , can take a very long time . |
| 10 | Alas for him , the speech proposing the loyal toast can sometimes take a very long time . |
| 11 | However , this can take a very long time to accomplish — some flyers never manage it — and will bring you closer and closer to the next stage to be conquered — the nose-in hover . |
| 12 | ‘ That did n't take a very long time , ’ said Masklin . |
| 13 | The process of separatism growing into a global force would thus take a very long time . |
| 14 | ‘ It will take a very long time before we can fully cooperate ’ , said Czech-born Thomas Messer . |
| 15 | Of course , that will take a very long time indeed . |
| 16 | It would take a very long time to implement and would be very costly . |
| 17 | The move towards economic sanctions is necessary , unfortunately , but sanctions will take a very long time to work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | New trees are being planted but it will take a very long time to repair the damage . |
| 20 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 21 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 22 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 24 | Which took a very long time . |
| 25 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 26 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 27 | Disposing of Giraud took a relatively short time . |
| 28 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 29 | The journey , despite the distance between London and the prison , had taken a surprisingly short time . |
| 30 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |