Example sentences of "but it take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds !
2 Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’
3 Probably most such birds possess more powerful navigational skills , such as those we shall discuss shortly for pigeons , but it takes special experiments to demonstrate the fact .
4 well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots
5 The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’
6 But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed .
7 ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way .
8 The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges .
9 At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 .
10 But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense .
11 But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to …
12 A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers .
13 but it took five years
14 The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away .
15 ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life .
16 They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out .
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