Example sentences of "took [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is when you will discover if all those decisions you took during the last three years were the right ones . |
| 2 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 3 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 4 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |
| 5 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |