Example sentences of "it took six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took six hours to make . |
| 2 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 3 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 4 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 5 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 6 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 7 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 8 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 9 | It took six days to replace the locks on the car , and all the while I was worrying that the thieves might try to steal it . |
| 10 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 11 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Above : It took six men to get the 15′ tank into the house . |
| 14 | It took six men , a lorry with a hydraulic lift , one hundred and fifty feet of tracks , a tray on wheels and four hours to get it there . |
| 15 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |