| 100% | OED | 3 | It took 70 years to complete, in brief |
| 60% | OED | 3 | Ref. work that took 70 years to complete |
| 60% | OED | 3 | British ref. work that took 70 years to complete |
| 50% | LIFESWORK | 9 | It takes years and years to complete |
| 47% | OED | 3 | Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete |
| 45% | YEAR | 4 | It takes months to complete |
| 45% | MONTH | 5 | It takes weeks to complete |
| 45% | TBOND | 5 | It takes years to mature |
| 45% | OED | 3 | Publication whose first ed. took more than 70 years to complete |
| 44% | QUICKSAND | 9 | It takes time to sink in |
| 43% | MOVIE | 5 | It takes a lot of takes to complete |
| 42% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | It took this Greek hero 20 years to get home |
| 42% | OLD | 3 | What it takes years and years to grow |
| 42% | DOS | 3 | How many it takes to tango in Spain? |
| 41% | ONETASTE | 8 | All it takes to convince you, in some ads |
| 41% | TNOTE | 5 | It might take 10 years to mature |
| 41% | NSEC | 4 | It takes light about one to travel one ft. in a vacuum |
| 41% | LAPS | 4 | It takes 4.5 _____ to cover 500 yards in a pool |
| 41% | TWO | 3 | Number of people it takes to tango, in an expression |
| 41% | THESES | 6 | Papers that take years to complete |
| 40% | GIGAWATTS | 9 | It takes 1.21 to time travel in Back to the Future |
| 39% | LICIT | 5 | Novice in charge takes it to be legal |
| 39% | ANNUAL | 6 | Plant that completes its life cycle in one year |
| 38% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | It's estimated to be a foot in the next 25 years |
| 38% | NICEANDSLOW | 11 | How Usher wants to take it in a 1998 #1 hit |
| 38% | GPS | 3 | It may be attached to a windshield, in brief |
| 37% | SADSONG | 7 | Something to take and "make it better," in the Beatles' "Hey Jude" |
| 37% | EWING | 5 | Catcher Buck ___, elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in its first year |
| 36% | THELIMIT | 8 | Where to take it to, in an Eagles hit |
| 36% | ANY | 3 | In less than a minute, they decide whether or not they want to take it __ further. |