Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it take " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | In this way the youngsters make it clear that they are not yet mature enough to be considered rivals for territories or breeding partners and are allowed to feed on the reef beside their parents for the several months that it takes them to grow to maturity . |
| 3 | Alex Carlile , Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales said : ‘ I hope the Government will take the same view of damage by flood to Welsh homes that it took to damage to Her Majesty 's home . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 5 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 6 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 7 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 8 | Whereas she ca n't stand doing the pictures cos it takes her too much time . |
| 9 | This is a budget Chairman that builds on the achievements of the last four years , the care for our schools and it takes into account that the future will not be as rosy as we would like and allows for contingencies . |
| 10 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 11 | We , in this country and indeed in this house , can be very deeply complacent when indeed we should be ever vigilant about our democracy and the very precious forms that it takes of which one was the er public inquiry stage of the erm boundary commission procedures . |
| 12 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 13 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 14 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 15 | The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing , obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one , or tie-in sales , no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing ( no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself ) , and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements ( suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product , and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection ) . |
| 16 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 17 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 18 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 19 | Through subsidies the state has established a vast ‘ social salary ’ to make life easier for workers and it takes a pride in the extensiveness of the welfare system that has developed from this . |
| 20 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 21 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 22 | He said copyart can be practised by people of differing abilities because it takes little or no skill to produce exciting and impressive images . |
| 23 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 24 | The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) said Mr Rao was too busy fighting a factional war in his Congress Party to read intelligence reports about the attack days before it took place . |
| 25 | I chaired the Committee that considered the London Underground ( Safety Measures ) Bill , which will improve the safety of a number of London underground stations when it takes effect , including Oxford circus , which several million commuters pass through every day . |
| 26 | It 's four minutes per museum floor , half an hour in Djemaa el Fna ( less for those scared of pickpockets and dirt ) , one hour round the city walls in a carriage at trotting pace and as much time in the souks as it takes to buy a rug , a leather coat and some fake Berber jewellery . |
| 27 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 28 | This time it was an ordinary letter by the looks of things and it took , again , just over three minutes . |
| 29 | But er to their credit er they got the contractors in and they commenced by putting up new pillars and new roofing structures and it took them about twelve months I think to actually build a new machine shop . |
| 30 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |