Example sentences of "it would take [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd take ages . ’ |
| 2 | After all , it would take ages to grow another pair . |
| 3 | I was n't so concerned with Midwinter 's security but it would take ages to phone New York . |
| 4 | It would take ages , and then someone like Willy Carson would pull out at the last minute . |
| 5 | It would take ages |
| 6 | It would take hours to drive the distance . ’ |
| 7 | It would take days to sweep the stuff away , weeks for the green to grow green again , for the dust to settle and become earth . |
| 8 | It would take days at ship speeds . |
| 9 | There would be bad , and good , effects and it would take weeks , even months , for her to assimilate them . |
| 10 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 11 | Very soon , however , it was realised that the fall of rock was so extensive that it would take weeks to reach John and , naturally , the initial urgency waned . |
| 12 | De Macon was at sea , it would take weeks to send a petition to Wolsey , and my master was immersed in his good works at Ipswich . |
| 13 | It would take weeks of back-breaking work . |
| 14 | He acknowledged the government 's awareness of the adverse social effects of the devaluation and said that it would take measures to alleviate them , including increasing wages in 1993 and compensating government employees who had lost their jobs as a result of the economic changes . |
| 15 | Describing a bypass as ‘ pie in the sky ’ the spokesman said it would take years to achieve while action was needed now . |
| 16 | Some were wounded ; others so damaged by their experiences that it would take years to return to normal . |
| 17 | With a few possible exceptions , it is not worthwhile stocking up with other components in large numbers because it would either be too costly , or it would take years to use them all up . |
| 18 | It would take years to see all the delights and pleasure which Italy has to offer . |
| 19 | Macromolecules in solution are usually much smaller and it would take years for them to overcome the Brownian motion and form a sediment . |
| 20 | ‘ It would take months to sell off all that lot , especially the way the market is now , ’ a merchant banker said . |
| 21 | It would take months , perhaps a year , for such strength to seep away . |
| 22 | When he returned to London it would take months of arguing with some scrupulous clerk of the Exchequer to get it reimbursed . |
| 23 | It would take months for the rocks to cool off , and about a thousand years for the steam in the air to condense back into the seas . |
| 24 | Others , including the London councils , were sympathetic but explained that it would take months , not hours , to get the decision through all the relevant committees . |
| 25 | The leaders who went out to any area of European expansion had to make all their own decisions because it would take months , if not years , for their sovereign to reply to any request for instructions . |
| 26 | Early in 1976 Austrian Niki Lauda said that it was totally unsuitable because of the time it would take firefighters to reach some parts of the vast circuit . |