Example sentences of "took a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 2 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 3 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 4 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 5 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 6 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |
| 7 | The Eastern Region took a little while longer to dispose of their section north of Pilsley Colliery , and it was to be winter 1967/8 before the contractors arrived at Heath . |
| 8 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 9 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
| 10 | His proud father , also called Thomas , said today : ‘ It took a little while for us to realise what he had done . |
| 11 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |