Example sentences of "it would have taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon it would 've taken you most of the night . ’ |
| 2 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
| 3 | Under the previous organisation it would have taken months of internal wrangling to resolve the conflicting aspirations of regionally based management . |
| 4 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 5 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
| 6 | It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become . |
| 7 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 8 | For a soft-shoulder Sunday mechanic like me it would have taken all day , but most of the jobs are incredibly simple to the man who can , who served his time with Ford and spent years at London Transport . |
| 9 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 10 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 11 | It would have taken its occupants hours to get to the Cluanie Inn for a pint from there . |
| 12 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 13 | If Peel had not got into it I think it would have still been well received but it would have taken longer , ’ says Gedge . |
| 14 | The printing press enabled Luther to start a Reformation — think how long it would have taken him to preach his way round Germany . |
| 15 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
| 16 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |
| 17 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have taken the gilt off the gingerbread ’ , she said . |
| 19 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |
| 20 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 21 | Often , in the course of these , which involved a lot of wandering about among the surrounding woods and fields , we had occasion to urinate together ( it would have taken too long to go home ) and the opportunity to examine one another 's bodies . |
| 22 | If a program is as complex as Designaknit was produced that way , it would have taken forever . |
| 23 | Surely this must be one of the very first models here and at that time I never heard of anyone owning one ( it would have taken six weeks wages to pay for it ) . |
| 24 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 25 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 26 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 27 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
| 28 | We could have done this without the Support Force but it would have taken longer to do . ’ |
| 29 | It would have taken no additional effort to assemble a selection representative of the period and presenting a new view of many leading artists ' activities and styles applied to this medium . |
| 30 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |