Example sentences of "it take about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to " explain " why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago — it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve . |
| 2 | It takes about one hour for the mite to bury itself in the skin . |
| 3 | For most people , it takes about one hour for the liver to reduce blood alcohol by 15ml/100ml . |
| 4 | It takes about one hour for the alcohol from a drink to reach its peak concentration in the blood . |
| 5 | Backing up your data is vital , so book a lunch date if you choose level two , because it takes about one minute per megabyte of hard disk space to set up . |
| 6 | It takes about one month to commission each machine with the next one being delivered in October and another before the end of the year , when once again Stoddard 's team will be visiting the States . |
| 7 | • Pethidine — usually given as an injection , it takes about 10–20 minutes to provide relief from pain . |
| 8 | It took about six weeks for the fever to go and then we got sulphur candles to fumigate the house from top to bottom . |
| 9 | Well it took about six month with me arguing and arguing and arguing . |
| 10 | Hence it took about two-thirds of the total period since the origin of life to reach the eukaryote stage . |
| 11 | It took about four hours to raise full steam in the original boiler . |
| 12 | After school , I had to get practise and it took about one and a half hours to get there . |
| 13 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 14 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 15 | It took about nine months before it started getting a grip of us really . |
| 16 | It took about nine months of planning from start to finish on the one project we did . |
| 17 | It took about two and a half days to read it all . |
| 18 | It took about two and a half hours to fire that bread . |
| 19 | And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about ! |
| 20 | It took about half an hour . |
| 21 | It took about half an hour for the wave riders to travel from Minsterworth to Gloucester . |
| 22 | It took about ten minutes to chew through one slice and only two very heavy loaves lasted us back to Newlyn . |
| 23 | It took about twenty minutes to ascend the 212 steps , but it was worth the effort . |
| 24 | It took about twenty minutes . |
| 25 | It took about three or four hours to complete an ordinary chair seat ; more complicated patterns could take as much as seven or eight hours . |
| 26 | It took about three months of him distressing me before I read it . |
| 27 | It took about three months for me to realise how she did it . |
| 28 | It took about 300 hours , but it was time well spent , the practice believes , because of the number of inaccuracies in the FPC register — around 40 per cent . |