Example sentences of "it would take [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually it would be fairer just to say that , in comparison with the time it would take either a monkey or a randomly programmed computer to type our target phrase , the total age of the universe so far is a negligibly small quantity , so small as to be well within the margin of error for this sort of back-of-an-envelope calculation . |
| 2 | ‘ And , curiously enough , it would take only a comparatively small rise in wage rates to make an enormous impact on the problem . ’ |
| 3 | It would take only a minor leap of faith , a moment of transcendence , to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back . |
| 4 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 5 | In Neville Russell ( 1987 ) 3 BVC 611 , the first year 's rent was cut by £240,000 because two floors of the building were not needed by Neville Russell , and it would take about a year to find a suitable person to take a sub-lease for those two floors . |
| 6 | But , even then , its temperature would be so low that it would take about a million million million million million million million million million million million years ( 1 with sixty-six zeros after it ) to evaporate completely . |
| 7 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 8 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 9 | It would take quite a , an exercise to actually find them and |
| 10 | Er er what the honourable gentleman , my honourable friend reads out is certainly my view er we will erm of course engage in any discussions on this subject that come up i in the council of ministers but it would take quite a lot of convincing I think to myself and my colleagues , that any other form of election would be an improvement on first past the post , erm and er the ar , no I wo n't give way cos I have about four minutes left and er I do want to make a couple of other points . |