Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 2 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 5 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 6 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust . |
| 14 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 17 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 18 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 20 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 21 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 22 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 23 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 24 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 25 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 26 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 27 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 28 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 29 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 30 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |