Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 2 | It takes long hours in the laboratory to convert deadly greenery into a possible lifesaver . |
| 3 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 4 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 5 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 6 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 7 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 8 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 9 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 10 | er if you 're out of work you 're it takes small businesses of . |
| 11 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 12 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 13 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 16 | It takes most things in its stride , and it 's a very easy car to drive . |
| 17 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 30 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |