Example sentences of "it take some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 2 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 3 | It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust . |
| 4 | ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses . |
| 5 | It took some balls to beard the Colonel in his lair . |
| 6 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 7 | Another role for town planning beckoned ; it took some years for regional economic planning practice to take coherent shape , but the gauntlet of the conceptual challenge had been thrown down . |