Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 4 | With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers . |
| 5 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |