Building L.N.G. terminals, for example, can take years.
Adding captions to video clips, for example, can take a lot of time, effort and money.
Some seeds are naturally slow: basil, for example, can take three weeks to reach harvesting size in summer.
More complicated or expensive deals, like buying a multifamily brownstone, for example, can take the tab closer to $5,000.
E-mail, for example, can take about the same amount of time to download, because it is a small amount of data.
Some fake iPhones in China, for example, can take two SIM cards, and thus handle two different numbers through the same handset.
Players who crawl up the Empire State Building in the game, for example, can take in a 360-degree view of Manhattan: west to Penn Plaza, east to United Nations headquarters, south to Chelsea, north to Times Square.
The multiple-jointed arm of the space shuttle, for example, can take cameras, equipment and astronauts to an astonishing array of positions, but the process of planning every movement is enormously complex.
Market optimists, for example, can take comfort in knowing that volatility readings tend to jump at big transitional moments in the market when there's a great debate as to the general direction of stocks and the economy.
