Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 2 | It took hundreds of millions of years to evolve these abilities , longer , perhaps , than it has taken human beings to evolve from fish . |
| 3 | The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed . |
| 4 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 5 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 6 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 7 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |