Example sentences of "take five " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 2 | Students should take five tougher , leaner A-levels , he said . |
| 3 | Even on the cheeriest estimates , it will take five or ten years to rescue East Germany 's economy from 40 years of communism . |
| 4 | A clue to his role may be found in the fact that only seven times did he take five wickets in an innings and never once ten in a match . |
| 5 | She did n't take five years out and say to herself , ‘ I 'm really going to learn music . ’ |
| 6 | Or rather , they can take five . |
| 7 | It might take five moves , or 10 , or 15 , to get to the goal , but when that happens , it is not because the player looked ahead that number of moves . |
| 8 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
| 9 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 10 | They established it would take five derelict wrecks to build up one flyable aircraft and its reliability would no doubt be poor . |
| 11 | I can take five . ’ |
| 12 | In older houses , fresh air replaces stale air about once an hour , but the process can take five to six hours in draught-free modern homes . |
| 13 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 14 | It may take five minutes of real time to play the match . |
| 15 | Will take five days . |
| 16 | Yeah will take five days . |
| 17 | And her father , no slouch on the Nordic circuit himself , has agreed to let her take five years out of education to become a champion . |
| 18 | In what appeared to be a change of approach by Spain , the Economy and Finance Minister , Carlos Solchaga , proposed to the meeting that the commencement of Stage 2 should be delayed until Jan. 1 , 1994 , and that the transition to Stage 3 should take five to six years . |
| 19 | On June 23 the veteran Texan oil firefighter Red Adair had claimed that the task of capping oil fires would take five years . |
| 20 | Do you consider it important that we take that into account now , not least because of the , although it 's well beyond the plan in its entirety , where the new settlement might go , and its its acceptability in environmental terms , depends in part on how big it is , there may be some places which could easily take fifteen hundred dwellings , but could not take five thousand ? |
| 21 | Candidates must take five mandatory core skills modules , with the module covering personal and interpersonal skills being chosen from a choice of five . |
| 22 | Students and trainees will take five mandatory core skills modules plus three other mandatory modules covering science in context , health and safety at work , and a more advanced new module in sustainable resource utilisation . |
| 23 | Ca can I just say one thing , though , if you me nip out , it 's not that I do n't want to listen to this , er , it 's in connection with the property er worries that er , Geoffrey said , I 've got to sign a lot of er , arm twisting letters , which I , they want me to sign today , so if I can take five minutes out to sign those , I hope you will not feel I 'm trying to er skive off , as it were . |
| 24 | It 'll take five weeks for the shipment to get to Japan . |
| 25 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 26 | But in showers you can like take five minutes sometimes . |
| 27 | The names on the Warwickshire team sheet are changing , and Bob Cottam 's statement that it 'll take five years to get it right is looking accurate . |