1. How long will it take to make the product?::22enm-202

  2. It would take spaceships traveling at 1 percent of the speed of light more than four hundred years to reach the Alpha Centauri system.::2403-29

  3. Then it would take a few weeks to turn the strawberries into delicious jam.::22enm-202

  4. For example, in a genuine training situation, Dr Pamela Hinds found that people expert in using mobile phones were remarkably less accurate than novice phone users in judging how long it takes people to learn to use the phones.::2431-34

  5. He discovered a pattern of exactly how long it took to forget.::25yd-T115

  6. It didn't take long for word of our campaign to spread.::22enm-204

  7. And the speed with which we can eat soft, easy-to-digest food is poorly matched with the fifteen- to twenty-minute delay it takes our bodies to recognize that we are full, leading to chronic overeating.::24sw-90L

  8. At a certain age — nine, ten, eleven, we were all there once — most of us are capable of the kind of blind devotion it takes to master some single, obscure skill that we've decided is central to our identity.::25ss-1302

  9. It takes an overwhelming smell to retain our notice after a period of constant exposure.::25yd-4010

  10. It would take nearly a decade for this problem to resolve.::24yd-101

  11. Odor molecules come in many shapes and sizes ─ so many, in fact, that it takes many different receptors to detect them.::25ss-T322

  12. In particular, he did a series of experiments on balls rolling down inclined planes (the purpose of the incline being, in his words, to dilute gravity enough so that he could measure the time it took for the ball to roll with the primitive clocks available to him).::24yd-509

  13. By meticulously measuring the time it took the ball to travel various distances, he was able to find out how the speed of the ball changed in transit.::24yd-509

  14. The behavior was so unexpected that it took a while for family members to make the connection between Tee Cee's staring sessions and Edmonds' epileptic fits.::24yd-9057

  15. Willie Author said it took till the middle of the next day for him and the police to get all those cows rounded up and loaded again.::24yd-111214

  16. It can take as much as half an hour for sensor information to be sent from Mars to Earth and for commands to be sent from Earth to Mars.::24yd-1202