Example sentences of "[coord] it take [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 4 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 5 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 6 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 7 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 8 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 9 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |