Example sentences of "it [adv] took [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 2 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 3 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 4 | It always took some while for the Thing to wake up . |
| 5 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 6 | He claimed it often took three weeks for written details to arrive on his desk . |
| 7 | But because inflation differentials were relatively small during the 1950s and 1960s , it often took some time for marked divergences in competitiveness to emerge . |
| 8 | ‘ It actually took 7 months of enquiries to locate the right type of pesticide-resistant clear plastic from Germany . ’ |