Example sentences of "should take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A key issues review should take approximately 1-3 days of a manager 's time and 1 day of a partner 's time depending on the size of the transaction .
2 Dry with a hairdryer ( it should take approx 10–15 minutes ) and rinse with warm water — it makes a wonderful treat for your hair .
3 It should take only 5 minutes to tell parents how to run the intervention for so many weeks and then return to the baseline .
4 The kit for doing the job comes with the necessary fittings so that the job of ‘ winding ’ the coil into one hole and out of the other after removing the pipes from the boiler should take only 15 minutes .
5 The whole exercise , from beginning to end , should take about two hours , with plenty of time at the start just for thinking .
6 When the pork is crispy and dry , which should take about 4 minutes , remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper .
7 It will cost around A$20 million and should take about four years to build .
8 This process should take about 2 hours .
9 Should take about three quarters of an hour ?
10 Mola had estimated that it should take about three weeks to conquer the coastal area as far west as Santander .
11 I got twenty past , er , I reckon this should take about ten minutes to a quarter of an hour , okay .
12 should take about ten minutes
13 Do n't try to hurry the programme of exercises , which should take about twenty minutes or so .
14 As the medical he describes should take around forty minutes , this forms quite a neat equation .
15 Though decisions need to be made quickly , their implementation should take as much time as is necessary .
16 Unless you have a fair experience of building handicrafts and a lot of time on your hands , you will probably need to hire a builder , and you should take as much care over this as possible since the quality of building work varies very substantially indeed , and two different firms of builders , next to each other in the ‘ Yellow Pages ’ may reflect totally different standards and attitudes .
17 He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved .
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