Example sentences of "it [adv] takes [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos it only takes about six week dun n it ? |
| 2 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
| 3 | What I do is I just get a bus at Hertford and walk to Hertford and normally it does n't take long it only takes about ten minutes |
| 4 | We have merely aruged that such an existent necessarily belongs to only one such class , i.e. that it necessarily takes only one out of each pair of contradictory predicates . |
| 5 | It just takes up all your life really . |
| 6 | It just takes up all your life , really . |
| 7 | Because it 's erm it just takes too much energy away . |
| 8 | It usually takes about three people to hold him . |
| 9 | it usually takes about three working days and er |
| 10 | cos it , cos it like takes up half the tape anyway |
| 11 | She said , ‘ ( a ) it hardly takes up any room once it 's folded . |
| 12 | Not only does Britain have an immense problem coping with its own industrial waste , but it also takes on that of other countries . |
| 13 | It now takes about twelve years from the development of a new chemical to the marketing of it as a medicine , so that twelve years is used in testing it — first of all on animals and then on human volunteers and finally on patients . |