Example sentences of "that it takes [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 2 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 3 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 4 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 5 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 6 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |