Example sentences of "take much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process takes much longer than the two years of ‘ aftercare ’ written into many restoration contracts . |
| 2 | This takes much longer than one thinks — at least 5 to 10 minutes depending on amount of meat . |
| 3 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 4 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 5 | He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this . |
| 6 | As this trip was taking much longer than planned , due to many orbits and several beautiful parts of the coastline flown as slowly as possible , we expedited lunch , and were soon airborne heading north to pick up the coast again . |
| 7 | At first he had assumed that it was taking much longer than the boy had estimated or that his work on the Project was taking up his time , but this explained it all . |
| 8 | He soon started to gather illustrations for The Tourist 's New Guide to the Lake District , but as with the Manchester plan , it took much longer than he had hoped , and the final version was not published until 1819 . |
| 9 | It took much longer than expected for the population to be reduced by deaths , occasional discharges and transfers to new units . |
| 10 | Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ . |
| 11 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |
| 12 | ‘ That took much longer than I would have believed . ’ |
| 13 | But meanwhile democracy would have been taken much further than the Mensheviks envisaged — and there was even the possibility that , if revolution broke out in the West , the ‘ dictatorship ’ might be sustained by aid from socialist regimes abroad . |
| 14 | It is unfortunately true that however good your routefinding , long rock descents usually take much longer than you expect . |