Example sentences of "[noun sg] it would take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at top levels of Highlight speed it would take us a few bio-days to get there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
| 4 | Although the sides of the flysheet moved in high winds I never felt for one minute it would take off . |
| 5 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 6 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 7 | If he went round by either the footbridge or the traffic bridge it would take him longer since the wherry lay about half-way between the two . |
| 8 | With the old method it would take you hours looking through files , but with the computer you just push a button and it tells you right away . |
| 9 | er as a Euro candidate it would take a colossal amount of time . |
| 10 | He 'd had thirty five years ' experience , he was looking at th and and in his mind 's eye putting the jigsaw puzzle into the van as it were to work out how much space it would take . |
| 11 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 12 | ‘ All right , ’ he grudged , contemplating the hour it would take to drive it there . |
| 13 | She just wanted to go home and had started to worry about the hour it would take her to get there , the sorry state of her boots , the snow coming on . |
| 14 | Preobrazhensky says in his reply to his critics , in the foreword to the second edition of his book , that Bukharin is too general , and not specific enough , since he ‘ merely ’ talks about the law of labour expenditure and not the form it would take in the transition period . |
| 15 | Luckily , the gas had left me feeling so foul and depressed that I was almost looking forward to it , feeling faintly curious about what form it would take . |
| 16 | Were you to continue on this path it would take you to Corrour Station on the edge of Rannoch Moor , and judging by the brutal erosion , something exciting and irresistible must be going on up there to lure so many boot-clad walkers along the track . |
| 17 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | went down on the bus it would take him |
| 20 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 21 | Add the life and colour of cities such as New York , Washington , San Francisco and Vancouver , and this is a land it would take more than a lifetime to truly discover . |
| 22 | As Barro points out , the only quantity rule which does not carry with it the implication that at times buyers and sellers will , at the price set , trade a quantity of the good they consider in advance to be sub-optimal is a rule which sets output equal to the value it would take in the absence of any unanticipated disturbances ; that is , y n . |
| 23 | It would , she saw , be perfectly possible for her and Pilade to go to England the following year if someone could be found to run her boarding house for the time it would take . |
| 24 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 25 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 26 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 27 | And although safe conduct was officially guaranteed to either faction during the time it would take to reach the site , parley and then ride home , many truces failed to hold . |
| 28 | Early in 1976 Austrian Niki Lauda said that it was totally unsuitable because of the time it would take firefighters to reach some parts of the vast circuit . |
| 29 | Yet in the time it would take her to reach the café , tell Oliver and return with him , the flat would be empty and she would never know who her intruder was . |
| 30 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |