Example sentences of "take a [adj] time get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months . |
| 2 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 3 | It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff . |
| 4 | Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand . |
| 5 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |