Example sentences of "it took four " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 2 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |
| 3 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 4 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 5 | It took four visits ( over a seven-week period ) to put an end to her phobia once and for all and to allow her to lead the happy , normal life she so desired . |
| 6 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 7 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 8 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 9 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 10 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 11 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 12 | It took four and a half hours to reach the summit and , believing it would be easier and quicker to regain the glacier by traversing the mountain , we continued our crab-like progression to the west . |
| 13 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 14 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 15 | It took four men to heave the huge Victorian cast-iron bath up the stairs . |
| 16 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 17 | It took four of them to carry me . |
| 18 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 19 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 20 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 21 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 22 | It took four nomes to carry it . |
| 23 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 24 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 25 | It took four or five days for that news to reach Strasbourg . |
| 26 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 27 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 28 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 29 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 30 | Oh , oh , it took four sides , James , after this . |