Example sentences of "take [num] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 2 | The drive takes twelve hours in all . |
| 3 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 4 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 6 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 7 | The finalists in this evening 's 110 metres hurdles BBC2 and Eurosport , 7.15pm ) will take 10 barriers of that height in their stride . |
| 8 | In Cannock Forest the warden might take ten oaks from those blown down in the hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , and in ‘ the wood called Hockley ’ . |
| 9 | It should take 23 weeks for all 23 goals to be accomplished . |
| 10 | I shall take two examples of that and apply them to London . |
| 11 | The purpose of the application is to allow him to die through natural causes which , it was thought , would take two weeks at most . |
| 12 | Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery . |
| 13 | The climb was very tough , taking eight hours in all , and in places the guides had to cut away the plants to clear a route . |
| 14 | The interview took 30 minutes for each manager . |
| 15 | Altogether we did 8 miles by road and 3 miles on the old trackbed , taking 6 hours in all with stops . |
| 16 | I asked for my Mother to be brought from the UK to give me comfort in my husband 's place , it took 3 weeks for this to happen . |
| 17 | Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease . |
| 18 | Richard Snell , Somerset 's new overseas signing , took four wickets in each innings |
| 19 | The All Blacks took two fullbacks on that tour , Mains and a young and flighty lad Kit Fawcett , whose enormous talent at rugby and cricket was never quite harnessed . |
| 20 | He took two wickets in each innings and did well enough to merit further matches . |
| 21 | She gave a little gesture , out towards the windows , to the formal parterre which had taken twenty men as many months to relay and replant . |
| 22 | ‘ Normally I take 30 copies of this paper , ’ said one . |
| 23 | If the White Paper becomes an Act of Parliament , the whole of the M5 and nearly all of the M1 will be widened to take four lanes in each direction . |
| 24 | As David Hencke points out , it is possible to take two views of this . |
| 25 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |
| 26 | In the first year of the course , students take two units in each of History , Politics and Sociology . |