Example sentences of "it take [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 2 | It takes four place settings and costs £299.90 ( building-in kit extra ) |
| 3 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |
| 4 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 5 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 6 | For every unit of alcohol ( half a pint of beer ; one glass of wine ) , it takes one hour to clear itself from the body . |
| 7 | Now you know Shallot 's golden rule : It takes one rogue to know another , and a real rogue to recognise an honest man . |
| 8 | Indeed , I always had a sneaking admiration for him and I think he liked me for , as you know , it takes one rogue to recognise another . |
| 9 | And therefore , it takes one element and er it it erm it it seeks to highlight that particular element . |
| 10 | The incentive to settle any claim exists insofar as it takes one file more off the solicitor 's desk and from the client 's point of view , gives him his damages ( or a proportion thereof ) sooner than would be the case if he requires to proceed to Proof . |
| 11 | It takes one calorie– of heat energy to raise one gram of water through one degree Celsius . |
| 12 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 13 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 14 | there 's twenty twenty men , right five hours to big hole , how long would it take one man . |
| 15 | How long did it take one man . |
| 16 | Which aircraft have we got and can it take two crew and a full load of fuel ? |
| 17 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 18 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 19 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 20 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 21 | It took one bounce and rolled right into the hole for birdie . |
| 22 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 23 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 24 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 25 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |