Example sentences of "now takes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hectic campaign schedule now takes a three-week breather until a big primary in Pennsylvania , followed in May and June by Ohio , several states in the South , and the West Coast states led by California . |
| 2 | Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s . |
| 3 | He was later diagnosed as having Graves Disease , a thyroid ailment , and he now takes a daily synthetic thyroid hormone pill and a blood-thinning drug . |
| 4 | The price of software in Moscow has remained stable so far , despite the sharp drop in the dollar-rouble exchange rate last month : market researcher Soft Market polled 20 software dealers in Moscow and found that prices are steady in spite of the currency fluctuation and Borland International Inc 's use of a US dollar benchmark for its rouble products sold in the former Soviet Union — where it had set rouble prices according to local conditions , it now takes a dollar price and converts it into roubles at the market rate . |
| 5 | Abbado , too , now takes a shrewder view of the music than he did in 1977 when he recorded the concerto with Pollini in Vienna for DG . |
| 6 | This has brought considerable benefits to us ; a return that took weeks to produce now takes a matter of minutes . |
| 7 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 8 | The championship now takes a break until September with Ewing/McCracken on 31 points , McCann/Murray on 29 and Fletcher/Erwin on 28 . |
| 9 | The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn . |
| 10 | Montgomerie now takes a five-week break from the European circuit as he awaits the birth of his first child next weekend . |