Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun] to get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better start walking there now , takes a bleeding hour to get round there ! |
| 2 | No but that takes a long while to get round . |
| 3 | Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months . |
| 4 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 5 | He argues : ‘ I have little doubt that on average we will see a premium of about a third , but it could take a few weeks to get there . |
| 6 | It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff . |
| 7 | Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand . |
| 8 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 10 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 11 | Following a bout of diarrhoea — due to an infection or whatever other cause — the digestive processes in our intestines take a little while to get back to normal . |