Example sentences of "[noun] it take [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know
2 Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover .
3 With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income .
4 In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable .
5 Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries .
6 But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself .
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