Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] take only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall take only two examples . |
| 2 | It may take only twenty minutes or as long as two hours before they find the monkeys and are sufficiently close to them to launch an attack . |
| 3 | Even without demolition of walls , it may take only 20–30 years for a masonry building to disappear beneath the ground , but less substantial buildings can disappear even faster . |
| 4 | Because it takes so long for blood alcohol levels to fall , it 's easy for someone who drinks ‘ modestly ’ at lunch time and after work to go over the limit , even though he may take only four units on each occasion . |
| 5 | It should take only 5 minutes to tell parents how to run the intervention for so many weeks and then return to the baseline . |
| 6 | In fact Brian Moore reckoned it would take only twelve days for the administrators to see the error of their ways . |
| 7 | At two pounds and ten shillings an acre it would take only ten working days to pay for the plough , but he had promised Christian half his earnings . |
| 8 | If they were opposed , it would take only 24 hours , but if there was no opposition it would take twice that time , because the cheering Romanian population would hold them up with their welcome . |