Example sentences of "have taken [num] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 3 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 4 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 5 | It " would have taken 15 minutes to reach San Salvador and Marianella was probably transferred for interrogation to the Military School . |