Example sentences of "take about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 2 | IT TAKES about five minutes in New Zealand to comprehend why the All Blacks are the best . |
| 3 | It takes about five minutes to set it up before you retire to bed , and if you come back downstairs for something you have to cancel it and start all over again . |
| 4 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |
| 5 | The act of copulation usually only takes about five seconds , ejaculation occurring as soon as the male has entered the female . |
| 6 | Only takes about five minutes . |
| 7 | Nine hundred and sixty seven words that takes about five or six minutes to read it if I can read it in this light . |
| 8 | Old tramp takes about five days to do one of them . |
| 9 | and it takes about five fucking hours , it 's ridiculous . |
| 10 | It 's quicker to go there yourself ( you 'll get a copy within about three days ) but you can also apply by post , which takes about four months . |
| 11 | Just outside Ribeiro Frio the road is crossed by yet another levada walk , that to the right being a Particularly nice one to Portela which takes about four hours . |
| 12 | The company likes to oversee as much of the recording to pressing operation as possible — which takes about four months . |
| 13 | The battery takes about four and a half hours to charge . |
| 14 | Takes about four turns to wind the deadlock back , then it 's the little key for the latch in the middle . ’ |
| 15 | The nearest star , called Proxima Centauri , is found to be about four light-years away ( the light from it takes about four years to reach Earth ) , or about twenty-three million million miles . |
| 16 | Visas are needed to visit Oman , there are ten to 12 flights a week from London and the journey takes about eight hours . |
| 17 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 18 | So what you 're saying , in terms of the eight minutes , is that something , an event which happens on the sun , which is visible , takes about eight minutes to reach us . |
| 19 | It now takes about twelve years from the development of a new chemical to the marketing of it as a medicine , so that twelve years is used in testing it — first of all on animals and then on human volunteers and finally on patients . |
| 20 | The walk , which gives magnificent views , takes about two to 2¼ hours to Pico Ruivo which , at 1,862m , is the highest in the island . |
| 21 | This takes about two weeks to complete and costs £10,000 . |
| 22 | The stage of expulsion of the child from the uterus and its journey through the vagina takes about two hours of this time and is the most painful stage . |
| 23 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 24 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 25 | Cos she takes about two pounds of root ginger peels it |
| 26 | It takes about two hours to watch it |
| 27 | Alright , when the supply comes on to the market , you know , it may be nine months down the road if it 's an annual crop , if you 're looking at something like erm , production of cocoa , right now , a cocoa tree takes about nine years to mature , therefore alright , you 're not going to know what prices are going to be nine years down the road , you 're going to have to base your production decisions and therefore your output decisions on what prices are nearly a decade , nearly a decade ago . |
| 28 | One the flour and water are mixed to a paste , it takes about 10 minutes for the heat to develop . |
| 29 | The latter cycle takes about 10 days to complete , and successful transmission demands that female mosquitoes survive and take at least two feeds of blood during this time . |
| 30 | Vasectomy is usually carried out under local anaesthetic , and the whole operation only takes about 10 minutes . |