Example sentences of "[pron] take [art] long time [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’
2 There seems to be a memory for elaborate patterns and sequences which takes a long time to develop .
3 Which took a long time to recover from .
4 An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support .
5 She took a long time to dress .
6 And she took a long time to answer it .
7 Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured .
8 Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ?
9 They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards .
10 Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni .
11 Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave .
12 I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’
13 Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it .
14 Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across .
15 well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time
16 It takes a long time to visit every house in the neighbourhood — and enjoy some hospitality while one is there . ’
17 But it takes a long time to regain trust .
18 It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds .
19 If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated .
20 The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments .
21 Banks are like supertankers : it takes a long time to turn them round .
22 ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep .
23 The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want .
24 These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command .
25 It takes a long time to get used to it . ’
26 Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone .
27 Yes erm and er I think in the course of that we will have learned a lot of lessons the er that 's not a facetious comment , it 's true er the the first time you write er a software programme erm and any of you will will have experience of this , it takes a long time to get it right .
28 ‘ Suffolk folk will tell you it takes a long time to get to know them , and I soon found out it 's true .
29 The people are generally friendly but shy and it takes a long time to gain their confidence to the point where they will teach a visiting scientist the secrets of their art .
30 If you want decent trees it takes a long time to grow them !
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