Example sentences of "it [verb] about five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 2 | IT TAKES about five minutes in New Zealand to comprehend why the All Blacks are the best . |
| 3 | It takes about five minutes to set it up before you retire to bed , and if you come back downstairs for something you have to cancel it and start all over again . |
| 4 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |
| 5 | Now when you have a house full of furniture , it weighs about five tons usually . |
| 6 | And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms . |