Example sentences of "have take three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has taken three characters to make the basis of this chapter . |
| 2 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 3 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 4 | Since 1979 , the Government has taken three measures to lower the replacement ratio — that is , to increase the gap between a person 's income when in work compared with when he or she is drawing the dole . |
| 5 | The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent . |
| 6 | We 're very reluctant to have to take three weeks holiday . |
| 7 | We 've taken three patients to hospital . |
| 8 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 9 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 10 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 11 | The two men had burned away the safe door which Joyce said had taken three hours . |
| 12 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 13 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 14 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 15 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
| 16 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 17 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 18 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |
| 19 | Empirical studies have taken three forms : ( a ) controlled experiments , usually observing how selected persons respond to higher benefits ( negative taxes ) ; ( b ) questionnaires based on random samples , and ( c ) econometric studies using data on how people have responded in the past to tax changes . |