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
“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
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Officials say the essential work - set to take ten years - is needed to avoid the risk of "catastrophic building failure".
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2017
After take ten Dylan plaintively whines, “I can’t sing so loud,” before going onto two more takes, then giving up, for the moment.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2015
He wound up calling Cingular’s legal department, who told him such requests could take ten to fifteen days, an amount of time that had already elapsed.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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