Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 2 | It takes 4 days , following a very beautiful rocky and indented coast . |
| 3 | ‘ It takes real guts to carry off such a successful fraud . |
| 4 | In the case of amniocentesis , it takes two-three weeks to grow the culture from which the presence of handicap can be detected . |
| 5 | It takes long hours in the laboratory to convert deadly greenery into a possible lifesaver . |
| 6 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 7 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 8 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 9 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 10 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 11 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 12 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 13 | I have also suggested that although research is a key component of professional practice , it takes many forms , and the various types of research I have described feed professional knowledge in many ways . |
| 14 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 15 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 16 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 17 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 18 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 19 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 20 | It takes 10 minutes to reach the arch , slogging through the filth and scum . |
| 21 | He says , no it takes thirty days to get here . |
| 22 | Indeed , it takes hardened travellers a while to fully relax , but in the end all succumb to the magic . |
| 23 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 24 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 25 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 26 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 27 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 28 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 29 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 30 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |