Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents . |
| 2 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 3 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 4 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 5 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |