Example sentences of "it would take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd take ages . ’ |
| 2 | But it took her it used to take her quite a while I suppose it would take couple of hours to make a bonny wreath would it . |
| 3 | He wondered how long it would take Lee to get up to the feeding-ground . |
| 4 | Mr Devall said if the nitrate removal plant house was built it would take water from the Stour , remove nitrates from part of it for drinking water in Essex and return the rest into the Stour . |
| 5 | After all , it would take ages to grow another pair . |
| 6 | I was n't so concerned with Midwinter 's security but it would take ages to phone New York . |
| 7 | It would take ages , and then someone like Willy Carson would pull out at the last minute . |
| 8 | It would take ages |
| 9 | On Jan. 30 China said that it would take part in the disarmament process initiated by Bush and Yeltsin only when the USA and Russia had reduced their nuclear arsenal to " a level matching China " . |
| 10 | The Hezbollah organization announced on June 30 that it would take part in the elections , although it had not participated in any government formed since the Taif accord . |
| 11 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 12 | In a report on the future of the Falklands , Lord Shackleton said that it would take £100 million or so for redevelopment . |
| 13 | It would take hours to drive the distance . ’ |
| 14 | On 21 September Prime Minister Clement Attlee informed Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin , then in New York , that he favoured a declaration from the United Nations that it would take responsibility for the rehabilitation of the whole country . |
| 15 | I recommended that the paper be published as it was because it would take Linde several months to correct it , since anything he sent to the West would have to be passed by Soviet censorship , which was neither very skillful nor very quick with scientific papers . |
| 16 | It would take days to sweep the stuff away , weeks for the green to grow green again , for the dust to settle and become earth . |
| 17 | It would take days at ship speeds . |
| 18 | ‘ You are being very naughty , ’ McAllister whispered back , pretending to be severe , ‘ and the only thing that I can say in your favour is that I am in nearly as bad a way as you are , and know exactly how you feel — but be patient , it can not be long now , ’ for she knew that once the bazaar was over , and she was at last able to tell him the truth , they could go ahead with their marriage plans , the only delaying thing being the time it would take Mama and Papa to cross the Atlantic . |
| 19 | However , a real particle close to a massive body has less energy than if it were far away , because it would take energy to lift it far away against the gravitational attraction of the body . |
| 20 | She knew it would take courage to ring that number . |
| 21 | The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips . |
| 22 | There would be bad , and good , effects and it would take weeks , even months , for her to assimilate them . |
| 23 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 24 | Very soon , however , it was realised that the fall of rock was so extensive that it would take weeks to reach John and , naturally , the initial urgency waned . |
| 25 | De Macon was at sea , it would take weeks to send a petition to Wolsey , and my master was immersed in his good works at Ipswich . |
| 26 | It would take weeks of back-breaking work . |
| 27 | ‘ It would take chloroform at least . ’ |
| 28 | He acknowledged the government 's awareness of the adverse social effects of the devaluation and said that it would take measures to alleviate them , including increasing wages in 1993 and compensating government employees who had lost their jobs as a result of the economic changes . |
| 29 | Describing a bypass as ‘ pie in the sky ’ the spokesman said it would take years to achieve while action was needed now . |
| 30 | Some were wounded ; others so damaged by their experiences that it would take years to return to normal . |