Example sentences of "it take [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 It takes 4 days , following a very beautiful rocky and indented coast .
2 It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth .
3 He says , no it takes thirty days to get here .
4 If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week .
5 He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show .
6 The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’
7 and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes
8 It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture .
9 Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’
10 It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights .
11 Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him
12 IT TAKES 150 days to produce a Brooks saddle .
13 To get legal authorization to open a newspaper kiosk or a small store , it takes 43 days of paperwork and costs $590 in fees and lost work time .
14 It took four days for the company to identify the real cause .
15 It took eight days to restore normal service in the area .
16 It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling .
17 It took 44 days , rather than the scheduled 20 , to travel the 50 km to Lebong Hitam .
18 It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine .
19 It took fifteen days to try : the summing-up lasted for a day : the jury returned thirteen special verdicts .
20 It took six days to replace the locks on the car , and all the while I was worrying that the thieves might try to steal it .
21 It took all day to cross the Nullarbor .
22 but even , it took all day to er , to get a
23 Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg .
24 It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag .
25 It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything .
26 Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government .
27 He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten .
28 Kept under police guard day and night , it took three days to reassemble the building and its contents .
29 It took three days to reach the town of Clujnapoca , where the generator was loaded on to a romanian aid wagon for the final stage of the journey .
30 It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire .
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