Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 2 | It takes 12 Britons to do the work of nine Germans or of eight Japanese , which suggests that a good many more redundancies will have to be declared before British industry is able to compete on the world markets . |
| 3 | How long would it take four men to do it ? |
| 4 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 5 | It took some courage to do so . |