Example sentences of "it could take [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could take fourteen weeks to complete the gruelling journey on foot from London to Rome in the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
| 3 | Once upon a time it could take several hours to install a network interface card . |
| 4 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |
| 5 | THE United Nations dealt a new blow to the starving millions in Somalia last night by saying it could take three weeks to stop bandits raiding food supplies . |