Example sentences of "took [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each image was comprised of 128×128 pixels and took 128 msec to take . |
| 2 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 3 | He held 59 catches and took 32 wickets at 47.00 with unremarkable medium-pace . |
| 4 | There was a large contingent of buyers from Eire who took 32 rams in total . |
| 5 | In 1952 , his best season when he took 75 wickets , Surridge became captain . |
| 6 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 7 | It was put on display last night in the northern Belgian town of Onkerzele and was rolled with 9,300 tobacco leaves and took 334 hours to make . |
| 8 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
| 9 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 10 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 11 | It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay . |
| 12 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 13 | Neil Kinnock took eight years to ditch the views of his mentor Aneurin Bevan , John Smith has taken a mere eight months to ditch those of Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 14 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
| 15 | He travelled with his party and the journey took eight months visiting America , Japan , Hong Kong , China , India , Egypt , Palestine , Turkey , and so homeward across Europe . |
| 16 | The $400m settlement , which will be split between the RTC and the FDIC , took eight months to negotiate and resolves all outstanding claims relating to thrifts that failed before 25 September 1992 . |
| 17 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 18 | His incredible journey to safety took eight nights and seven days and beat the record of SAS founder-member Jack Sillito , who walked 150 miles in the Western Desert during the Second World War . |
| 19 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 20 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 21 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 22 | The Risley and Culcheth Sites ' Social Club Committee took 70 kids aged from 9 to 50+ to see Aladdin at the Opera House ! ! |
| 23 | He had toured New Zealand with the young 1956–57 Australian ( non-Test ) side returning there three years later , again under Ian Craig 's captaincy , and in 1961 his travels were extended with a season at Colne , in Lancashire , where he took 70 wickets at 12 and hit 706 runs at 35 . |
| 24 | Left three children there and took the took eleven year old for a wa , dog for a walk , and nobody knew she 'd left them there , cos she did n't come back until Sunday afternoon at three o'clock ! |
| 25 | It took 18,000 man-hours to repair a complete Whitley . |
| 26 | ‘ We started from the Linn O'Dee and took 7.5 hours to walk the 20 miles through the mountains to Coylumbridge , ’ said Murray . |
| 27 | DETECTIVES were trying to find out yesterday why scientists took 49 days to tell them a supposed murder victim was killed by drugs . |
| 28 | Legislative authority rests with the People 's Assembly ; in elections on May 22-23 , 1990 , candidates of the ruling Arab Socialist Renaissance ( Baath ) Party took 134 seats while the four other legal parties allied with the Baath Party as the National Progressive Front won 32 seats . |
| 29 | In 1955 he took 175 wickets , which is still a club record . |
| 30 | He played for Sussex from 1912 to 1937 , during which period he took 2,211 wickets for Sussex at an individual cost of 17.41 runs . |