Example sentences of "it [vb mod] take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
| 2 | Yet the story says simply what it may take many pages to explain in words . |
| 3 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 4 | It may take five minutes of real time to play the match . |
| 5 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 6 | It may take innumerable forms , such as scratching the panel of a coach , removing a tyre from a car , or the car itself from a garage , or , in the case of animals , beating or killing them . |
| 7 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 8 | Since the London Fox is anxious to preserve the integrity of the market , it may take other measures , such as extending delivery times , to relieve pressure on shorts . |
| 9 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 10 | A reasonable duration period should therefore be set for MINTEG otherwise it may take several runs before anything is deleted . |
| 11 | It may take several operations . |
| 12 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 13 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 14 | There is also the possibility that the invention represents only a modest ( but nonetheless patented ) improvement on the employer 's existing products ; hence it may take several years simply to recoup the research and development costs . |
| 15 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 16 | But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator . |
| 17 | It may take drastic discontinuities , of the kind described above , to highlight the fact that the environment over a period must be taken into account before one can attempt to predict the course of personality development , yet children reared under normal home circumstances are generally regarded as remaining under such constant environmental conditions that this consideration does not hold . |
| 18 | In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit . |
| 19 | It should take 23 weeks for all 23 goals to be accomplished . |
| 20 | George Romanes , the evolutionist , physiologist and early comparative psychologist , declared in 1887 that ‘ we must look the fact in the face … it must take many centuries for heredity to produce the missing five ounces of the female brain ’ . |
| 21 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 22 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 23 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 24 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
| 25 | It might take five moves , or 10 , or 15 , to get to the goal , but when that happens , it is not because the player looked ahead that number of moves . |
| 26 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 27 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 28 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 29 | ‘ Now it 'll take all Wings Balsdon 's tact to get any parcels issued before next Monday . ’ |
| 30 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |