Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] take [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control .
2 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 .
3 It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added .
4 Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic .
5 It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived .
6 It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over .
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