Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 2 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 3 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 4 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
| 5 | A hay rake full of wet , rotting leaves can be very heavy , and it took around twenty heavings as a rule to clear enough to stop the pipe gasping for breath — or , rather , water . |
| 6 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
| 7 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
| 8 | It cracked the wall down that side and it took out that window put a big crack in there and also in the ceiling . |
| 9 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 10 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 11 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 12 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 13 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 14 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 15 | The actions of Timex in Dundee exude an air of pre-meditation rather reminiscent of Rupert Murdoch 's at Wapping : even down to the fortified perimeter installed by the new management team after it took over 18 months ago . |
| 16 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |