Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It takes you two days and half of two nights to find out that you do n't know ? ’ |
| 2 | Cor even if it takes you three days ! |
| 3 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 4 | I 'll take you one day . |
| 5 | ‘ It would take you two days at least . ’ |
| 6 | It would take him three days to reach Tracy with a small army and cumbersome siege machines slowing him down — what did one hour more or less matter ? |
| 7 | Well we can we can but as I said , the two lads who know about it , who could do it , they said well it might take us two days . |
| 8 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 9 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 10 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 11 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 12 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 13 | It took them three days and they came up with nothing . |
| 14 | Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South . |
| 15 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 16 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 17 | It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village . |
| 18 | In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path . |
| 19 | The journey of about 50 miles took him three days . |
| 20 | We did n't tell anyone , and I took things very quietly , doing exactly what was advised and taking it one day at a time . |
| 21 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 22 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |
| 23 | It had taken them four days to cover the hundred-odd miles and they 'd commanded attention from Larling to Epping . |
| 24 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 25 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 26 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 27 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |