Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 2 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 3 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 4 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 5 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |