Example sentences of "it [modal v] take [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But er it should take about an hour , hour and a half . |
| 3 | It might take just a decision for St Albans oldest of the country by having changed the word received to . |
| 4 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 5 | Informix says it 'll take around a year to productise SNI 's data dictionary , even though ERMS is already implemented for versions of the database which SNI supplies to customers under an existing marketing agreement the two have . |
| 6 | It 'll take around a year to see if the drug does help reduce the side effects of radiotherapy . |
| 7 | If they lose , it 'll take about a year to recover the cost of the inquiry in 6 penny tolls . |
| 8 | ‘ It 'll take about an hour and a half . |
| 9 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 10 | Actually it would be fairer just to say that , in comparison with the time it would take either a monkey or a randomly programmed computer to type our target phrase , the total age of the universe so far is a negligibly small quantity , so small as to be well within the margin of error for this sort of back-of-an-envelope calculation . |
| 11 | ‘ And , curiously enough , it would take only a comparatively small rise in wage rates to make an enormous impact on the problem . ’ |
| 12 | It would take only a minor leap of faith , a moment of transcendence , to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back . |
| 13 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 14 | In Neville Russell ( 1987 ) 3 BVC 611 , the first year 's rent was cut by £240,000 because two floors of the building were not needed by Neville Russell , and it would take about a year to find a suitable person to take a sub-lease for those two floors . |
| 15 | But , even then , its temperature would be so low that it would take about a million million million million million million million million million million million years ( 1 with sixty-six zeros after it ) to evaporate completely . |
| 16 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 17 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 18 | It would take quite a , an exercise to actually find them and |
| 19 | Er er what the honourable gentleman , my honourable friend reads out is certainly my view er we will erm of course engage in any discussions on this subject that come up i in the council of ministers but it would take quite a lot of convincing I think to myself and my colleagues , that any other form of election would be an improvement on first past the post , erm and er the ar , no I wo n't give way cos I have about four minutes left and er I do want to make a couple of other points . |
| 20 | Our craft members are in danger of being poached by the A W E U. An amalgamation may not be some people 's ideal , but it will take away a lot of the friction between the two unions . |
| 21 | When these far from straightforward issues have eventually been resolved , the draft will be subject to public comments ( six months ) , then committee revision ( say nine months ) — and , finally , it will take about a year before specifiers can see anything in print . |
| 22 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 23 | This means it will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun , so there 's no immediate cause for worry ! |
| 24 | I can see them getting 90 at least , and it will take quite a collapse from them to not get the 85 which would just about guarantee the title . |
| 25 | So it can take quite a long time to process applications to that point . |