Example sentences of "could take [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 2 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 3 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 4 | By such primitive methods , the volume of gas necessary to carry one or two people aloft , could take up to a day and a half to produce . |
| 5 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 6 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 7 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 8 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |