Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] take a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 2 | He was a perfectionist , and the job took a long time . |
| 3 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 4 | The chemicals are water-borne and the timber takes a long time to dry out . |
| 5 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 6 | The sinews of political and economic integration required to enable the expanded raising of resources by the Crown took a long time to create . |
| 7 | Yes but you know I mean a tr a tree takes a long time to mature does n't it ? |