Example sentences of "took just [art] " in BNC.

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1 It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year .
2 It took just a few instants for him to realise that the huddled figure was Mayli Koulo .
3 The rebuild took just a year , the aircraft having previously suffered an accident at Clacton in January 1986 .
4 It was a male MP who first drew attention to this unlikely cause for concern : he noticed , on a night out , that when men went to the toilet , it took just a minute or so , while women were left queuing for what seemed like hours .
5 While in the quarter-century from 1950 to 1975 recorded notifiable offences per 100,000 population increased by just over 3,000 , from 1,094 to 4,283 , it took just the decade from 1976 to 1986 for crimes per 100,000 population to increase another 3,000 , from 4,346 to 7,331 ( Criminal Statistics , 1986 , Table 2.2 ) .
6 If one took just the last three years , the annual average migration figure would be a little under three thousand three hundred .
7 The whole process took just an hour .
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