Example sentences of "it takes [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed . |
| 2 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 3 | Star Trek , it takes one million dollars to film just erm to make just one episode of Star Trek . |
| 4 | It takes five thousand nuts to make a ton of copra , which sells at twenty-four pounds a ton ; and that in turn will only produce about a third of a ton of hair shampoo . |
| 5 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 6 | What about the radar , I understand er it takes three hundred days to produce and a hundred days er is believed to be taken up in travelling from one site to another . |
| 7 | It takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit is the correct term for going round something , to orbit the earth . |
| 8 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 9 | It takes twenty five minutes . |
| 10 | Erm It takes forty eight man hours . |
| 11 | This job , whatever it is , it takes forty eight man hours . |
| 12 | Oh , it takes forty five minutes to . |