Example sentences of "it take [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do that , it assesses the difference in intensity of the sound in each ear and the infinitesimal difference in time that it takes to reach one ear before the other . |
| 2 | And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits . |
| 3 | ‘ We know how fast food moves through its gut , how much energy it takes to make one post-larval prawn from the day it hatches , and so on . |
| 4 | A telephone call is all it takes to summon one of our team of experts to your doorstep . |
| 5 | How many hours does it take to go seven hundred and five miles at forty seven miles per hour ? |
| 6 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 7 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |