Example sentences of "[noun pl] it took " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 2 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 3 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 4 | Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital — including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action — gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself . |
| 5 | Because they were both already awake and on their feet it took neither Phoebe nor Rachel long to reach Maggie 's room . |
| 6 | ‘ Nor the number of days it took to build the Palazzo Farnese ? ’ |
| 7 | Two years of training compared favourably with the minimum three years it took to acquire a degree . |
| 8 | ‘ Five years it took them , the first tae of them spent in these waters , so Ah would guess Darwin 's first tentative thoughts about the origins of species started here . ’ |
| 9 | Six of us , Mohammed , Aziz , Ali ( Aziz 's assistant ) , six locals and goods it took half an hour to unload half way , was a fairly modest load . |
| 10 | A building firm is getting rid of properties it took in part-exchange for new homes in a huge sale . |
| 11 | The revised standards are currently subject to exposure , but the Board does not intend to reconsider the decisions it took in approving the Statement of Intent . |
| 12 | Begun in 1446 by Henry VI as a private place of worship for just 70 scholars it took no less than 69 years to build , being completed in 1515 on the instructions of Henry VII but only after his death . |
| 13 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 14 | That part at least is uncontested , but for various complex legal reasons it took Thomas , an executor of the will , nine months to get probate . |
| 15 | He was merely quoting his old textbook from the Ecole de Viticulture et d'Oenologie at Avize which examines the practices of Champagne in the 1940s ; no doubt , the breakdown of cuvée and taille merely indicated the number of press operations it took , in less sophisticated times , to squeeze out these two parts of extraction . |
| 16 | With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well . |
| 17 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 18 | He tried so hard to help me while I was hurting in the hours it took to reach England ’ . |
| 19 | Yes when when there were three men Right when there were three men , that 's how many hours it took . |
| 20 | Throughout the night , throughout the seven hours it took to cover the one hundred and twenty kilometres to Leipzig , they had not passed another vehicle until they joined the rush-hour traffic into the city . |
| 21 | Seven hours it took . |
| 22 | ‘ I had immense faith in the work of the clinic and I knew that , however many attempts it took , I would get my baby . ’ |
| 23 | Everywhere else , European civilization was already predominant although there were important differences in the forms it took . |
| 24 | The USSR had had a long-standing military relationship with Afghanistan but the scale of the Soviet military intervention in that country in the 1980s and the forms it took were quite unprecedented in Soviet-Third World relations . |
| 25 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 26 | Time was suspended and the police heard my life story at least twice with patience and good humour in the 80 minutes it took to cut my right leg free from the car . |
| 27 | WE share the concern of Mrs Heather Countley , way out at Harwood-in-Teesdale , over the 55 minutes it took an ambulance to reach her injured son . |
| 28 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 29 | Judging by the amount of Kodak film expended by watching tourists in the seconds it took the train to cross the viaduct , I was alone in my seething contempt for the caviar wagon . |
| 30 | The 9.96 seconds it took for 32-year-old Linford to grab gold in Barcelona crowned a glittering career . |