Example sentences of "it take four [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light .
2 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
3 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
4 It took four days for the company to identify the real cause .
5 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 .
6 It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out !
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It took four years of hard work and fundraising .
10 ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins .
11 It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely .
12 In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop .
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