Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
2 | It takes four place settings and costs £299.90 ( building-in kit extra ) |
3 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
4 | Be it taking accurate telephone messages , preparing a quotation , or cooking a meal , quality management means it is done properly , all the time . |
5 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
6 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
7 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
8 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
9 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
10 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |