take ten
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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
Poppy had said he could take ten or twenty.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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