Example sentences of "it [verb] about three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 2 | It takes about three hours to make a basic card , but can take weeks to produce the more exotic patterns . |
| 3 | They actually just feed this information , it takes about three minutes on average to input the data off this into the computer , and it goes straight into the mainframe computer . |
| 4 | It takes about three days to get a call out and I remember DeFries did n't answer any of David 's calls because I think he knew what was going on . |
| 5 | I , I , I would suggest that it takes about three months to work out what your best arrangement of categories is going to be . |
| 6 | They say it takes about three weeks for a cure to work , and most Baden packages are based on this , although some are streamlined to 14 days . |
| 7 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 8 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |