Example sentences of "it take [pron] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes its primary level of analysis to be that characterized by the question of size and by the phenomenal form of the series . |
| 2 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 3 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 4 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 5 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 6 | It took him three quarters of an hour to get us there . |
| 7 | I say , it took us three quarters of an hour to get there , three quarters of an hour to get there , just over the half an hour getting back . |
| 8 | ‘ When we were setting up our flagship London/Glasgow service , it took us seven months of negotiation with BR to get an acceptable time slot , ’ he claimed . |
| 9 | It took us 20 minutes of scrambling through squalid , ruined alleyways before we reached the place , clambering over burnt-out buses and cars to find some Christian gunmen sitting on a pile of earth , smoking cigarettes . |
| 10 | It took my last reserves of strength and will to reach it and then to heave myself in . |