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Example sentences for: takes

How can you use “takes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The NYT takes the occasion to fess up to a mistake in the way the paper has been counting its issues.
From Chapter 2, it takes roughly 760 man-hours of labor per MWe of FGD built.
If you bid rationally (lower), you won't win any auctions; if you bid what it takes to win auctions (higher), you'll lose money because of the winner's curse.
The temporary injunction will allow banks in San Francisco and Santa Monica to continue charging non-customers for ATM use until a trial takes place.
Brodkey's account takes us from his discovery that he was ill with AIDS through his prolonged hospital stay with pneumonia, his decision to return home, and the slow months--many in a quiet equilibrium that was not health, but not death either--that followed.