Example sentences of "only take a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 2 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 3 | The whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
| 4 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
| 5 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 6 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 7 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 8 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 9 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 10 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 11 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 12 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 13 | It had been assumed that , because the journey would only take a few hours , it was better to be in the open air than in the dark and unventilated cargo holds . |
| 14 | It will only take a few hours of your time . |
| 15 | It would only take a few minutes . ’ |
| 16 | It will only take a few minutes , certainly . |
| 17 | I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Should only take a few days . |
| 19 | I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’ |
| 20 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 21 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 22 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 23 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 24 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 25 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |