Example sentences of "take a long [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 2 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 3 | But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units . |
| 4 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 5 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |