Example sentences of "take about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process alone would take about five years . |
| 2 | " It will take about five hours . " |
| 3 | This is no bad thing as the cost of a decent scanner ( around £2,000 ) would take about five years to get back costed against the amount of halftones we use . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , it would take about five man-centuries to write the New Testament into a bacterium , so I doubt if anybody will bother . |
| 5 | This exercise will take about five minutes . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ That work will take about five or six weeks and , as far as I can tell , it is purely a secondment from my existing job . |
| 7 | It could take about five years before definite results are known . |