Example sentences of "it [vb mod] take two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
| 2 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 3 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 4 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 5 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 6 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 7 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 8 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 9 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 10 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 11 | Professor Baldassare Conticello , the Soprintendente , estimates that at this rate it will take two generations before the whole of Pompeii is once more in a stable condition . |
| 12 | Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery . |
| 13 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |