Example sentences of "[conj] it could take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , to start off with they do the full spiritual exercise of Ignatius Loyal all takes thirty days in silent retreat with a with an individual er under individual guidance with a , with a , a director or it could take anything from nine months to eighteen months to do in er day da da da living in open sort of retreat . |
| 2 | They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country . |
| 3 | A spokesman for Pilkington , the major glass manufacturer , said yesterday that it could take several weeks for new windows to be installed . |
| 4 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |
| 5 | Reviewing the latest research on the greenhouse effect , the working group confirmed its previous conclusions that average global temperatures would rise by between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees centigrade per decade , but decided that its previous " best guess " of a 0.3 degree rise might be too high , and that it could take until 2030 , rather than 2025 , for global temperatures to rise by a full degree . |
| 6 | Oil fire specialists , including the Texan Red Adair 's company , warned that it could take at least two years for the fires to be put out . |
| 7 | It confirmed its previous conclusions that average global temperatures would rise by between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees centigrade per decade , but decided that its previous " best guess " of a 0.3 degree rise might be a little too high , and that it could take until 2030 , rather than 2025 , for temperatures to rise by a full degree . |
| 8 | It also said that it could take up to 15 years to clean up oil pollution along the Saudi Arabian coast . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd asked about your car , and I told you that it could take a week or more for the garage to locate the part they needed . ’ |
| 10 | She says that it could take at least ten years and cost a considerable amount of cash . |
| 11 | A spokesman agreed yesterday that it could take a couple of months for dealers to clear stocks of Cavaliers . |
| 12 | Dr Harvey McGillivray , head of the Observatory 's COSMOS unit told The Scotsman in 1990 that it could take a trained observer up to 20 minutes to scan an X-ray plate by eye , with no certainty of spotting abnormalities . |
| 13 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 14 | Throughout its existence , London Switchboard has always had more would-be volunteers than it could take on . |
| 15 | ‘ So it could take some time ? ’ |
| 16 | Bigger groups are likely to find economic recovery patchy and it could take time for higher earnings and dividends to feed through to investors ; while the more volatile smaller businesses , having been hit harder on the way down could spring back faster , Hardman says . |
| 17 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 18 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 19 | ‘ It looks as if it could take a week — or more , ’ he read her question . |
| 20 | He argues : ‘ I have little doubt that on average we will see a premium of about a third , but it could take a few weeks to get there . |
| 21 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 22 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 23 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 24 | Russian authorities are expected to file a request for his extradition , but it could take weeks before Swedish authorities decide whether the hijackers will be sent home or face trial in Sweden . |
| 25 | The Chesapeake Bay Program was born in 1977 and almost died before it could take a breath . |
| 26 | The wedding had to be postponed because she became ill , and before it could take place , the King dissolved Parliament and revoked its laws . |
| 27 | The first Act to abolish Chantries , in 1545 , had lapsed before it could take effect . |
| 28 | What factors ( people , events and ideas ) long before an event occurred ( " preconditions " ) were necessary before it could take place ? |
| 29 | The fire was put out before it could take hold and before vital fingerprint evidence left by Gore , was destroyed . |