Pronunciation of the English word takes.
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1. | What takes you only three days, takes me as many weeks. | |
2. | What takes you only three days, takes me three weeks. | |
3. | It takes only a short time to learn how to explain things to students. It takes much longer to learn when not to. | |
4. | It takes more time to prepare the car for getting painted than it takes for the actual paint job itself. | |
5. | It takes about twelve minutes for the Space Shuttle to pass over the continental United States from California to New York. A Shuttle trip around the world takes only ninety minutes. | |
6. | It takes years to grow a tree, yet it takes seconds to cut it. | |
7. | Man is greedy, he only takes into account his ambitions and takes his dreams for reality. | |
8. | "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." | |
9. | He is bright, but it takes more than just being bright to do this. It takes being committed. | |
10. | He takes care of her, and she takes care of him. They take care of each other. |