Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] took [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 2 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 3 | The engine box had a centre ‘ handle ’ and Ian took a long time sighting his chimney by this . |
| 4 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 5 | They were pulled into the stewards room after the race as officials took a long look at an incident early in the straight.A ban would have ruled the pair out of the Cambridgeshire and the Arc , but no action was taken . |