Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 3 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 5 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 8 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 9 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 10 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 11 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 12 | In 1956 the British forces had appeared to take an unconscionable time to get from Cyprus to Port Said . |
| 13 | But those old ideas do take a long time to die . |
| 14 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 15 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 16 | Development banks tend to take a long time to evaluate a project and are likely to impose conditions such as putting out all construction and equipment contracts to competitive tender . |
| 17 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 18 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 19 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 20 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 21 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 22 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 23 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 26 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 27 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 28 | for referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner or a Local Councillor for referral to the Local Commissioner , although it must be remembered that the Local Commissioner can only investigate after a complaint has been brought to the attention of the authority complained against and they have had a reasonable time to reply . |
| 29 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 30 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |