Example sentences of "it takes for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 2 | Whatever the answer , do not fall into the trap of imagining that the impact of a flood in one of this year 's drought-ridden rivers will pass as quickly as the time it takes for the river to ‘ look ’ normal again . |
| 3 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 4 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
| 5 | It has an extremely long radioactive half-life ( the time it takes for half its activity to decay ) of up to 24,000 years . |
| 6 | You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty . |
| 7 | The fit is polished as many times as it takes for the residuals to show no more evidence of a relationship with the X values — for the slope to be zero ; the slope usually changes by gradually smaller and smaller amounts , and converges on a stable result . |
| 8 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well your home is insulated and draught proofed . |
| 9 | Despite the large amount of funding that has been pumped into the scheme teachers are worried by the time it takes for materials and information to get through to them . |
| 10 | It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products . |
| 11 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 12 | Now break it up as it is cut along the dotted lines and the object is to see how long it takes for it to be reassembled . |
| 13 | ‘ Les has got what it takes for international football . |
| 14 | In other words , in the time it takes for one murder on the crime clock , six workers have died ‘ just trying to make a living ’ ! ’ |
| 15 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 16 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 17 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 18 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 19 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 20 | ( The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time it takes for half of the radioactivity to disappear as the isotope decays ) . |
| 21 | It takes for ever . |
| 22 | I would like to hear an opinion for somebody who ca n't afford the twelve hundred to two thousand pound that it takes for surrogacy ? |
| 23 | that , that 's how long it takes for half of the radioactive isotopes to disappear . |
| 24 | Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two |
| 25 | It 's how long it takes for those to react together until they 've stopped reacting . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the time it takes for military expenditure to result in an operational arms system can be anything between ten or twenty years . |
| 27 | Fixed repeated patterns of different rhythmic lengths are combined , the time it takes for both to return simultaneously to their starting point depending on the length of each pattern . |
| 28 | ‘ As many as it takes for me to understand , ’ Polly shouted back . |
| 29 | One of the extraordinary features of British economic management over the past fifty years has been the inability of those in charge to comprehend the workings of ‘ lags ’ : the time it takes for the effect of a change in policy to work through the economy . |
| 30 | As long as it takes for us to tire of each other , I suppose . |