Example sentences of "it would take [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
2 | It would take some time , but that did n't matter . |
3 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
4 | It would take some time for the news to get around . |
5 | I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is . |
6 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
7 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
8 | Because of his professed preference for isolation , it would take considerable time before Ewan was missed by other personnel on the base . |