Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 How long did it take one man .
2 I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that
3 I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs .
4 Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) .
5 Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated .
6 No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ?
7 But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ?
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