Example sentences of "take [adv] long as [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes as long as six or seven years and colossal sums of money ( some estimates suggest in excess of £10 million ) to put a new compound on the market . |
| 2 | It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time . |
| 3 | The-troops also slept in the lavatories — a very awkward situation , this , as sometimes , if there was an air-raid , the train crawled and the journey could take as long as sixteen hours . |
| 4 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 5 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 6 | The coarse grist can take as long as six months , by which time many plants that are intended to benefit will have long since gone . |
| 7 | It is our experience that from appointment to completion , the sale of a company can take as long as six months or , perhaps , longer . |
| 8 | If accepted , the appeal process could take as long as three years , according to reports . |
| 9 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 10 | It may take as long as 250 years to reach that height . |
| 11 | The process may take 5 minutes , it may take as long as 15 . |
| 12 | But this mink sometimes took as long as two hours to catch one . |
| 13 | Each item takes between 30 and 40 minutes to complete now , but took as long as one hour during her training period . |
| 14 | If a solicitor took as long as forty hours over it . |
| 15 | We had trips in those days that took as long as three months which not many people would undertake now . |
| 16 | On this picture , the cloud of material from which our Solar System formed had a very unusual history , taking as long as 4.6 thousand million years to travel from one spiral arm to the next and then taking several hundred million years to pass through the compressed region of the Galaxy , the arm itself . |
| 17 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 18 | Of the two main regions , Bas Armagnac produces more elegant spirits , whereas Ténarèze , with its heavy , chalky clay soil , tends to make hefty brandies that take as long as thirty years to show their true potential . |
| 19 | Several studies have shown that whereas full-dose aspirin achieves almost immediate platelet inhibition , doses of 80 mg take as long as 48 h to become maximally effective . |