Example sentences of "it would take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 2 | Because otherwise you would n't be able to it 'd take three days to clear so that 's the best way to do it . |
| 3 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 4 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 5 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 6 | As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour . |
| 7 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 8 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 9 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 10 | It would take many pages to list all the ones which have been identified by researchers today , but the phenomenon was not just confined to recordings . |
| 11 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 12 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 13 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 14 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 17 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 18 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 21 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 22 | Echo Logic is n't rushing towards the Intel iAPX-86 market , estimating it would take nine months and four or five dedicated folks working on it . |
| 23 | It would take six hours to examine all thousand stones . |
| 24 | Love managed his second successive 68 , adding : ‘ We were warned that play would be slow here but I could n't believe it would take six hours . |
| 25 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 26 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
| 27 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 28 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 29 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 30 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |