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
But I will take ten little blue boxes, too.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2022
Vaccines typically take ten to fifteen years of research and testing.
From New York Times • May 2, 2020
“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
“One special thing, just one each, girls. We can only take ten kilos apiece.”
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
