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Example sentences of "it [adv] take [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop .
2	fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit
3	Cos it only takes about six week dun n it ?
4	What I do is I just get a bus at Hertford and walk to Hertford and normally it does n't take long it only takes about ten minutes
5	The match itself was 12-a-side , the decision to make it so taken late in the day .
6	We have merely aruged that such an existent necessarily belongs to only one such class , i.e. that it necessarily takes only one out of each pair of contradictory predicates .
7	The two could n't be compared : it just took so much more to be really good in F1 .
8	Because it just took so much of our energy last time helping people fill in forms and everything .
9	And eh that just stuck and the joins were alright It just took so long before as well did n't it .
10	Life there is so inexpensive that it just takes longer to get it all done .
11	My radiator is working , I think it just takes longer than the others to heat up .
12	Because it 's erm it just takes too much energy away .
13	It already takes more than 20 per cent of British production at prices that are comfortably higher than those offered at home .
14	At first it left the initiative to state and local government but then it progressively took away more and more of it .
15	Cultures can of course be changed but it usually takes longer than the organisation is prepared to wait .
16	It usually takes longer than with oesophageal tumours and constitutes a considerable workload .
17	It usually takes about three people to hold him .
18	it usually takes about three working days and er
19	But it still takes less than five minutes altogether .
20	Because programs can store any segment of any letter , this process is far less laborious than it once was , though it still took around three months for the nine fonts which make up the Ecotype family .
21	A J-C-B digger was brought in , but it still took more than three hours to clear up the mess .
22	It also takes longer for an old person to use the toilet and they may sense impatience from other residents or staff if they spend as long as they would like in a toilet .
23	It also takes longer to ask " open-ended " questions and to record the responses .
24	It clearly takes longer if you do it with another person or as a group but even then 15 to 20 minutes is adequate unless you are tackling some really contentious issues .
25	It might be added as an aside that it probably takes much more cultural energy to teach bellicosity and to produce warriors ( with spears as arms ) , than to teach co-operation and to produce shamans ( with ‘ thoughts ’ as arms ) .
26	It now takes about twelve years from the development of a new chemical to the marketing of it as a medicine , so that twelve years is used in testing it — first of all on animals and then on human volunteers and finally on patients .
27	It often takes more than one attempt .
28	it then takes away the acid from the joint .
29	Armed with computers , the procurement department did its job much faster , reports Larry Skinner , the company 's chief of re-engineering , but it actually took longer for anyone in TI to purchase supplies because filling out all the forms demanded by the procurement department had become so complicated .
30	Quality control had become terribly sophisticated during the er war time era When i a people realized it actually took longer to inspect a bullet than it did to manufacture it .