take ten
Example Sentences
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And then it would take ten minutes to eat.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
We work with survivors, and very often many take ten, twenty, thirty years and they’re still untangling the trauma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
It can take ten to fifteen years of development.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2023
“I intend to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer,” he declared, not realizing that final victory would take ten months longer than that.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
He had nightmares that he would take ten, twenty, or thirty jump shots in the first practice and not make a single one of them.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
