Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 33 | It takes most things in its stride , and it 's a very easy car to drive . |
| 34 | This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required . |
| 35 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 36 | Particularly if dissimilar investments with different time scales are in competition for funds , the NPV method has merit in the general case , because it takes these factors into account . |
| 37 | particularly if dissimilar investments with different time scales are in competition for funds , the NPV method has merit in the general case , because it takes these factors into account . |
| 38 | Now tt if you look at it this way , le let's suppose that the Communist Party was successful in its military campaign and it , it takes military control of south China , which it was beginning to then , and did up to nineteen forty eight |
| 39 | It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘ |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust . |
| 43 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 44 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 45 | To get legal authorization to open a newspaper kiosk or a small store , it takes 43 days of paperwork and costs $590 in fees and lost work time . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 48 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 49 | It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 50 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 51 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 52 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 53 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 54 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 55 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 56 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 57 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 58 | It took tremendous courage for Roebuck to fight back from his crippling injury , but there is a further chapter to the story . |
| 59 | To take a lorry load of goods from Leeds , it took 4 hours to Liverpool docks and 2½ hours to Hull docks before the motorways were opened — and ‘ time is money ’ . |
| 60 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |