Example sentences of "[vb -s] take [art] [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 3 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 5 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 7 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 8 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 9 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |