Example sentences of "and it took " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 2 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |
| 3 | Mr Goodwin then phoned the company to check his facts , and it took out an injunction to prevent his publishers , Morgan Grampian , publishing the information — which it said could severely damage confidence among customers and suppliers . |
| 4 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 5 | The voice at the other end was plainly over-excited and it took him a minute to disentangle what he was being told . |
| 6 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 7 | Lamb was on 99 and it took him an age next morning to reach the hundred , his first since 1984 . |
| 8 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 9 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 10 | The only unqualified crossover success in recent years has been Cher , and it took a minor miracle for her to get there . |
| 11 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 12 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 13 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 14 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 15 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 16 | The Nature Conservancy Council is the body responsible for advising the Government on nature conservation in Great Britain , and it took a lead in providing the considerable resources required for specialist survey work . |
| 17 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 18 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 19 | It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa . |
| 20 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 21 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 22 | By the end of the race he had lost nearly two stone from a frame that has no spare fat , and it took him a week to start eating properly again and a further three weeks to regain the lost weight . |
| 23 | A unit of radiation dosage , the ‘ roentgen ’ , was not defined until 1928 , and it took time for it to be universally accepted . |
| 24 | They set off in November 1923 and it took a year to set up the expedition . |
| 25 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 26 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 27 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 28 | The sand , shingle and shells were a prehistoric beach , preserved somehow over millions of years — and it took a breakdown for me to discover it . |
| 29 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 30 | But a night-marish six at the 164-yard 17th undid all the good work and it took a birdie at the last to rescue a par round . |