Example sentences of "takes about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never knit for more than one hour at a time ; after this I go and make a cup of coffee , pop to the bathroom , feed the cat , water the plants , in fact any small job that takes about ten minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ Watch my feet , ’ he says in his thick slow voice , then turns his back and takes about ten shuffling steps . |
| 3 | Now both Stan and I have the same policy that erm we will write out It takes about ten minutes , or maybe a little bit longer with me , cos I 'm not as clever as Stan . |
| 4 | It takes about ten minutes in the car . |
| 5 | The district nurse comes to give her the monthly vitamin injections for her anaemia — takes about ten seconds and she 's gone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the earthworm , development to L3 takes about ten days at optimal temperatures of 22-260C . |
| 8 | Only takes about takes about ten , not even that , to get to Witham station to get like to London and Kingston and e all your other sort |
| 9 | What I do is I just get a bus at Hertford and walk to Hertford and normally it does n't take long it only takes about ten minutes |