Example sentences of "it takes about [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | IT TAKES about five minutes in New Zealand to comprehend why the All Blacks are the best . |
2 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |
3 | One the flour and water are mixed to a paste , it takes about 10 minutes for the heat to develop . |
4 | As eating-time continues , the body sends out more and more satiety signals , but it is estimated that it takes about twenty minutes for a meal to have its full effect in filling our stomachs and sending out all the other physical signals of sufficiency . |
5 | They actually just feed this information , it takes about three minutes on average to input the data off this into the computer , and it goes straight into the mainframe computer . |
6 | They say it takes about three weeks for a cure to work , and most Baden packages are based on this , although some are streamlined to 14 days . |
7 | It takes about 30 years from planting for a tree to grow enough bark to be harvested . |
8 | It takes about ten minutes in the car . |
9 | Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence . |
10 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |