Example sentences of "it could take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half life of the parietal cell is 23 days in rats and presumably much longer in man and therefore it could take many months for resoluion of an increased parietal cell mass . |
| 2 | It could take fourteen weeks to complete the gruelling journey on foot from London to Rome in the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | It could take all night , writes Dan Conaghan . |
| 4 | As Thornton Heath depôt no longer had to supply cars for the Mitcham Road , it could take all the cars necessary for routes 16/18 and 42 and Purley depôt was closed . |
| 5 | And er it could take all all Saturday morning to do it you know . |
| 6 | It could take all night . |
| 7 | But erm it could take that length of time . |
| 8 | It also became clear it could take two or three days of fierce ministerial talks to sort out the division of the £244.5 billion public spending cake . |
| 9 | It might go on f it , it , it could take two or three years . |
| 10 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
| 11 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |
| 12 | A spokesman for Pilkington , the major glass manufacturer , said yesterday that it could take several weeks for new windows to be installed . |
| 13 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 14 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |
| 15 | Once upon a time it could take several hours to install a network interface card . |
| 16 | It could take some trial and error to discover the correct interval ; and you may need to chart the person 's pattern . |
| 17 | ‘ So it could take some time ? ’ |
| 18 | If an inner northern relief road were built , it could take some of the traffic which the western relief road is catered to deal with . |
| 19 | It could take some time . ’ |
| 20 | Before 1 January 1926 it could take three forms : coparcenary , or tenancy in common , or joint tenancy . |
| 21 | THE United Nations dealt a new blow to the starving millions in Somalia last night by saying it could take three weeks to stop bandits raiding food supplies . |
| 22 | It could take three years or even more , depending on the exact nature of the change and , of course , the priority given to it . |
| 23 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 24 | It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House . |