Example sentences of "[that] it could take " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A spokesman for Pilkington , the major glass manufacturer , said yesterday that it could take several weeks for new windows to be installed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It also said that it could take up to 15 years to clean up oil pollution along the Saudi Arabian coast . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | She says that it could take at least ten years and cost a considerable amount of cash . |
| 10 | A spokesman agreed yesterday that it could take a couple of months for dealers to clear stocks of Cavaliers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |