Example sentences of "it take [det] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 2 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 3 | ‘ If you start with a new house and new furniture it is usually about five years before anybody can get asthma in that house : it takes that time for the mite dung deposits to build up . |
| 4 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 5 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 6 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 7 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 8 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 9 | It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust . |
| 10 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 11 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 12 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 13 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 15 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 16 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 17 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 18 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 19 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 20 | The courthouse windows were open but the radiators below them were hot ; it took several hours for any changes in setting to make themselves felt through the massive heating system , and it was impossible to keep up with the irrational temperament of the month . |
| 21 | It took several minutes for Joseph to recover his composure and only then was he able to see by the light of the fires that the rear of the communal hut was divided up into tiny stall-like compartments for the pholy 's wives and daughters . |
| 22 | It took several moments for him to orientate himself and wipe the sleep from his eyes . |
| 23 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 24 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 25 | It took several months for that to come home and safe . |
| 26 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 27 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
| 28 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 29 | Another role for town planning beckoned ; it took some years for regional economic planning practice to take coherent shape , but the gauntlet of the conceptual challenge had been thrown down . |
| 30 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |