Example sentences of "it take [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed . |
| 2 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 3 | Star Trek , it takes one million dollars to film just erm to make just one episode of Star Trek . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit is the correct term for going round something , to orbit the earth . |
| 8 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 9 | It takes twenty five minutes . |
| 10 | Erm It takes forty eight man hours . |
| 11 | This job , whatever it is , it takes forty eight man hours . |
| 12 | Oh , it takes forty five minutes to . |
| 13 | It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room . |
| 14 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 15 | It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger . |
| 16 | It took another two months for the contract to be drawn up . |
| 17 | ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . ) |
| 18 | It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely . |
| 19 | It took another sixty years to achieve this ; Forster 's Education Act was not passed till 1870 . |
| 20 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
| 21 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 22 | It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans . |
| 23 | And it take twenty four hours to go round once . |