Example sentences of "it take [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's one one fault really it takes approximately fifteen to eighteen months for them to pass anything like that and that could be one |
| 2 | Avioc from the UK has begun marketing Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstation 10s in Russia through the Moscow Sparc centre : export licences are still required for RISC-based computer equipment but the firm says it takes only 10 to 12 weeks to get one . |
| 3 | It takes so much of your time , 15–20 hours a week from February to October and sometimes a lot more , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 5 | We can not just do nothing , when it takes so little of our time to make our voice heard . |
| 6 | It takes about seven to nine hours before nothing but ashes remain , ’ Coetzee notes . |
| 7 | It took away one of the reasons he used to justify trying to suppress his homosexuality , you see . |
| 8 | Yeah , but the weather was cold , when cold that er , it took away some of the smell |
| 9 | It took just one of the party girls to drift by and break up his life . |
| 10 | It took just 500th of a second to take each snap . |
| 11 | But from ninety one ninety two onwards a married woman was entitled to an allowance in her own right , and it still mystifies me knowing Mrs Thatcher was in office for all those years , why it took so long for this to happen , . |
| 12 | ‘ It took that long for the Cell to find this planet . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah why 's , why 's it taken so long for Friends Provident to get round to doing this ? |
| 14 | Right , well I did n't expect it to take that long to the apostrophe . |