Example sentences of "will take [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It will take eight months to complete , and take competitors around the globe .
2 The work will take eight months .
3 We estimate that , given the current rate under Project 2000 , it will take 14 years before all nurses have that opportunity for advancement .
4 The trials of P24 VLP will take 18 months .
5 The survey points out that only three biotechnology medicines have been approved in the US during the past year and only 14 in the past decade , and at this rate , it will take 13 years for the 21 medicines now awaiting approval to be passed .
6 o An ‘ engineered trench ’ 30 m deep will take 34000 drums of intermediate wastes with low levels of alpha radiation .
7 Now in this case , four of them will take twelve hours .
8 So if four men take nine hours , nine men will take four hours .
9 one , two , three casualties so it will take four people to carry her , four people to carry her , four people to carry him , that is sixteen , that is , altogether , twelve plus three , fifteen people we 've taken out of the battle , yeah ?
10 But even this programme of divestment will take four years : it is being done on a stock by stock basis .
11 It will take four years for trials on the designer tree to be completed .
12 It measures 44.8 cm wide and 54.8 cm deep — about the size of a microwave — will take four place settings and has a choice of normal , economy and quick-wash programmes .
13 The chicken korma will take six hours to cook in a specially-built giant gas-fired pan at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London .
14 It is estimated that the three million trees required for the new forest — mainly broadleaved tree species interspersed with conifers — will take 30-40 years to plant and cost £3 million .
15 ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’
16 As to timescales , I have estimated that Project 1 will take one year full-time equivalent , and Project 2 will take three years full-time equivalent .
17 As a principle 1 will take one minute to communicate with my people , explaining why their urgent problem will have to be dealt with tomorrow . "
18 The ultra-cautious Dalglish said : ‘ We will take one game at a time .
19 ‘ I will take one step , ’ my master called out , ‘ if you take one . ’
20 It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand .
21 Will take five days .
22 Yeah will take five days .
23 There are people on waiting lists , and I just want the chance to say something on this subject which will take two minutes .
24 Professor Baldassare Conticello , the Soprintendente , estimates that at this rate it will take two generations before the whole of Pompeii is once more in a stable condition .
25 If only a portion of the balance is to be switched into another currency , the service will take two working days , using the exchange rate quoted at the requested time of transfer .
26 That will take two hours .
27 Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery .
28 He says he 's detected a slow-down in discount rates , but reckons the market will take two years to recover .
29 Oracle UK has developed a front end customer service system for Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd 's Cellnet mobile phone users : it runs on Hewlett-Packard Co Unix systems but will take two years to implement across the firm 's sites .
30 It is now being replaced by a highly complicated tax that will take two years to value and will be a burden to those on low incomes in high-cost areas .
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