Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [num] day [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ?
2 It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible .
3 When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles .
4 Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South .
5 It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo .
6 Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world .
7 Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world .
8 We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth .
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