Example sentences of "it [vb -s] take [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It involves taking 13 juices every hour .
2 It has taken 13 years to come to this position .
3 It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original .
4 It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal .
5 Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here .
6 If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming .
7 , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in .
8 Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m .
9 Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 .
10 Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 .
11 It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping .
12 But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values .
13 It has taken 876,000 bricks , 24,300 cubic metres of concrete , 700 concrete piles , and 3,500 tonnes of reinforcement to build the Cornmill .
14 Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation .
15 It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts .
16 The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed .
17 It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales .
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