Example sentences of "it take four [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you
2 Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote .
3 It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light .
4 It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth .
5 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
6 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
7 How long would it take four men to do it ?
8 It took four visits ( over a seven-week period ) to put an end to her phobia once and for all and to allow her to lead the happy , normal life she so desired .
9 It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor .
10 I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith .
11 It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer .
12 It took four hours to fix .
13 It took four minutes to connect .
14 It took four days for the company to identify the real cause .
15 Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor .
16 It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’
17 Oh , oh , it took four sides , James , after this .
18 It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 .
19 It took four nomes to carry it .
20 It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out !
21 It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making .
22 It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely .
23 In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop .
24 When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark .
25 Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built .
26 stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that .
27 It took four years of hard work and fundraising .
28 ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins .
29 he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him
30 Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid .
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