Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
2 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
3 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
4 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
5 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
6 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
7 | 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 . |