Example sentences of "[that] it takes [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
2 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
3 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
4 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
5 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |