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 . |