Example sentences of "[conj] it take [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 2 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 3 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 4 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 5 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 6 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 7 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 8 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 9 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |