Example sentences of "that take [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skill that takes five years to learn |
| 2 | The window looked out on to a wide wooden verandah with a few deadbeat chairs and a metal table that took one leg off the ground when you leaned on it . |
| 3 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 4 | Players from almost every Premier League club were involved in a shoot that took four days and cost £400,000 . |
| 5 | ‘ Just taking pictures ’ was supported by a philosophical edifice that took two bottles of beer to explain and provided lots of opportunity for amused , patronising glances . |
| 6 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 7 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 8 | As others produce a packet of Hob Nobs from a plastic carrier bag , she is revealing a foil-covered dish containing lobster marinated in apricot juice that took two days to prepare . |
| 9 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 10 | In Egypt that took five weeks to get ; all for five days shooting . ’ |
| 11 | For a journey that took three days . |
| 12 | Unveiled : the jigsaw that took ten years |
| 13 | In the 1870s this was a mind-boggling task that took 300 clerks six weeks to complete . |
| 14 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 15 | In many subjects , statements of attainment can not sensibly be seen as achievements that take two years of work . |
| 16 | In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur . |
| 17 | There are hotels which keep you waiting at reception , restaurants that serve you cold coffee , shops which never have what you want in stock , mail-order firms that take three months to deliver the wrong goods . |