Example sentences of "it takes [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
2 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
3 | It takes half a minute . |
4 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
5 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
6 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
7 | ‘ It takes half an hour to get anywhere in London on the tube , ’ said Edward . |
8 | unless it takes half an hour , well half an hour anyway |