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 . |