take ten

We work with survivors, and very often many take ten, twenty, thirty years and they’re still untangling the trauma.

It took ten days to track down the brown bear.

"Bartender? Oh bartender, I'll take ten mules — for me — and please give the young lady whatever she wants," seems like the appropriate way to summarize my mule days.

“I was shocked, or surprised—happy, also. Because I had this number, and I thought it takes ten years or so to recompute it,” Jäkel says.

Mr. Zlochevsky told the informant “it would take ten years,” for investigators to untangle the bank records and connect Mr. Biden with the money.