Example sentences of "take [adj] month [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What takes eight months to organise , lasts eight days and takes Bristol and the South West by storm ? |
| 2 | It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE . |
| 3 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 4 | The company takes one month to pay these expenses . |
| 5 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 6 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 7 | It will take eight months to complete , and take competitors around the globe . |
| 8 | The Board of Inquiry could take 12 months to report back . |
| 9 | The declared aim of re-establishing Kuwaiti sovereignty , it was suggested , would be accomplished by an economic blockade of Iraq , and could take some months to achieve . |
| 10 | But most seemed intitially content to accept the restructuring which could take six months to negotiate . |
| 11 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |
| 12 | Project operators Statoil will take three months to complete the 8500 kilometre survey which began on September 26 using the seismic vessel Geco Searcher . |
| 13 | The new components will be provided in Open Interface as additional libraries — Perez estimates it will take three months to package each new library into the environment . |
| 14 | You can start at bronze for a period as short as three months through silver and up to gold which can take 18 months to complete . |
| 15 | Roots will grow from around the edges of the base , but can take several months to develop . |
| 16 | The changes will take several months to make much difference to most people 's lives ( price controls remain on basic foods , heating and transport ; the auctions of small businesses will begin only at the end of January ) . |
| 17 | It 'll take 9 months to get back to normal . |
| 18 | Certainly not one that would take seven months to finish . ’ |
| 19 | Well I 'm making arrangements to pay mine er but when I get paid on Friday it were going through , got ta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter and it 'll take seven months to pay but that 's all he can get off us . |
| 20 | You can take twenty-four months to pay . ’ |
| 21 | The $400m settlement , which will be split between the RTC and the FDIC , took eight months to negotiate and resolves all outstanding claims relating to thrifts that failed before 25 September 1992 . |
| 22 | The exercise took 12 months to complete and the atmosphere of uncertainty did little to boost morale among the ranks of BT 's middle managers , even though thousands opted to go under a generous voluntary redundancy programme . |
| 23 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 24 | The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer . |
| 25 | The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer . |
| 26 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 27 | Took six months to build that . |
| 28 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 29 | THE MINISTRY of Agriculture has been accused of threatening efforts to save endangered red kites in England by taking three months to discover that a dead bird was illegally poisoned . |
| 30 | I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer . |