Example sentences of "it take [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 2 | It takes 900 separate pieces of oak to build a typical timber framed house . |
| 3 | It takes specific cultural processes and relationships to , as it were , spark off these latent tendencies . |
| 4 | Like you say , it takes much more time to get into it . |
| 5 | Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification . |
| 6 | It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed . |
| 7 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 8 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 9 | It takes two distinct forms in different species . |
| 10 | Star Trek , it takes one million dollars to film just erm to make just one episode of Star Trek . |
| 11 | So body language if you read a lot of the books on body language it takes one single action and it interprets it based on that . |
| 12 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 13 | It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner . |
| 14 | It takes five thousand nuts to make a ton of copra , which sells at twenty-four pounds a ton ; and that in turn will only produce about a third of a ton of hair shampoo . |
| 15 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 16 | It takes 24,000 cubic ft of helium to fill the Met Office research balloon . |
| 17 | it takes six bleeding hours to think about it let alone six minutes . |
| 18 | What about the radar , I understand er it takes three hundred days to produce and a hundred days er is believed to be taken up in travelling from one site to another . |
| 19 | We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents . |
| 20 | Two were unrolling a 30-foot banner which read ‘ It takes 53 dumb animals to make this coat but only one to wear it . ’ |
| 21 | It takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit is the correct term for going round something , to orbit the earth . |
| 22 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 23 | It takes twenty five minutes . |
| 24 | Erm It takes forty eight man hours . |
| 25 | This job , whatever it is , it takes forty eight man hours . |
| 26 | Oh , it takes forty five minutes to . |
| 27 | It took twenty-six separate Cabinet meetings to resolve the issue . |
| 28 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 29 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 30 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |