takes two
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The test now takes two hours, instead of three, and students get more time to complete each question.
“Sometimes you have students, and you talk to them, and it takes two years to know that what you’re talking about got into their daily life,” said the composer David Lang, one of Mattingly’s teachers during graduate school at Yale.
From New York Times
It takes two to three hard reboots, then I’ll get the screen that says, “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly.”
From Seattle Times
Kadhim translated as the woman said in Spanish that she takes two buses, a journey of an hour and a half, to get appointments at Inova Children’s Hospital.
From Washington Post
While it takes two or three years to judge whether players panned out, it’s easy to identify the potential winners of the 2023 NFL draft.
From Seattle Times
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