Example sentences of "take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Word is it took only three days to boot Unix on the prototype . |
| 2 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 3 | That takes incredibly high performance , competitiveness , winning all . |
| 4 | Setting up an in-house electronic publishing operation takes rather more effort than most potential users seem to realise . |
| 5 | There can be no doubt that it takes gruellingly hard work to reach the top echelon in aerobatics , and each member of the British Aerobatic Team '92 has more than adequately demonstrated their worth . |
| 6 | It takes only 10 minutes to get to the shops in the wheelchair . |
| 7 | However , according to ICL , it takes only 10 seconds to reactivate the system . |
| 8 | A plate of spaghetti mixed with a fried courgette and some fried mushrooms , covered with a packet cheese sauce takes only fifteen minutes to prepare . |
| 9 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 10 | It takes only one missile to get through , and lives may be lost , not to mention the ship . |
| 11 | But if one takes only one kilometre , again there is insufficient room for a settlement which would not be close up against the greenbelt boundary proposed by the County Council , and close up against the A sixty four . |
| 12 | It takes only one leak to sink a ship , one gate to let in a Trojan horse . |
| 13 | London-based controller developer Pacific Semiconductor ( Europe ) Ltd has introduced its new Laserboost board that it says can radically improve the performance of Canon Inc SX , RX and TX-based laser printers like the LaserJet II and III , Brother HL8E and Canon LBP8II for a fraction of the cost of a new machine : the board takes only 15 minutes to install and costs just £380 ; it features Hewlett-Packard Co PCL 5 printer language , eight scalable fonts , a 20MHz 68020 processor , proprietary ASICs and Direct Memory Access through the parallel port ; it also has from 2Mb of memory , one independent and two parallel ports , offering HP7475A plotter emulation . |
| 14 | Since the insect and the scorpion are 30 genetic units distant from one another , it takes only 30 generations to evolve from one to the other if you never take a wrong turning ; if , that is , you know exactly what genetic formula you are heading towards , and how to steer towards it . |
| 15 | NAC says the system takes only 30 minutes to install , 30 seconds to reboot and its documentation is only 30 pages . |
| 16 | Network Appliance says the system takes only 30 minutes to install , 30 seconds to reboot and its documentation is only 30 pages . |
| 17 | HP reckons it takes only 30 minutes to complete the swap and get the new system running . |
| 18 | Both can run the same software , and Telecom Eire , a new Alpha user , says it takes only 30 minutes to upgrade VAX to Alpha . |
| 19 | The sugar — salt — water treatment , known as Oral Rehydration Therapy ( ORT ) takes only 24 hours to work — replacing vital body fluids and salts that are lost when diarrhoea strikes . |
| 20 | The bonus takes only ten minutes . |
| 21 | The journey takes only 20 minutes . |
| 22 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 23 | Their 3 Step 3 Product System has been developed by dermatologists , takes only three minutes a day and costs just £32.50 . |
| 24 | The electron beam and all deflection circuits are switched off , but as the CRT cathode is still active , the machine takes only three seconds to warm up if the keyboard is touched . |
| 25 | Roddy Greig , Manager , Transport and Messenger Services , said , ‘ It takes only seven plastic cups to produce enough material to manufacture a 12-inch ruler . |
| 26 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 27 | But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow . |
| 28 | It takes so much time , and conditions can be terrible , but it 's worth it to see the passengers . |
| 29 | ‘ To do anything in Sarajevo takes so much time . |
| 30 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |