take ten
Example Sentences
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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
Vaccines typically take ten to fifteen years of research and testing.
From New York Times • May 2, 2020
"Getting it out quickly, it's more fun; it's easier. I can't tell any appreciable difference between the ones that take three months and the ones that take ten days."
From Salon • May 3, 2019
“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
“I figure it would take ten or twelve bucks to give Doc a party you wouldn’t be ashamed of.”
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
