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
It can take ten to fifteen years of development.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2023
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
“I hear it doesn’t take ten minutes to get to the convention center,” she told her son.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
