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 .
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