Example sentences of "it take [adj] a " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	It takes such a long time to use up a tin , you probably would n't realise .
2	It takes half a minute .
3	It takes half a second or so in one bite .
4	It takes half a second or so in one bite .
5	‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’
6	She goes back therefrequently , and whenever she returns she takes books to distribute in the villages — they are highly prized in Nigeria , where it takes half an average month 's salary to buy a hardback .
7	She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them .
8	It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital .
9	‘ It takes half an hour to get anywhere in London on the tube , ’ said Edward .
10	unless it takes half an hour , well half an hour anyway
11	It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock .
12	Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up .
13	It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck .
14	Six of us , Mohammed , Aziz , Ali ( Aziz 's assistant ) , six locals and goods it took half an hour to unload half way , was a fairly modest load .
15	It took half an hour before she came across it , moored by a small wooden landing stage .
16	It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next .

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