Example sentences of "it took [adj] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 2 | It took another two months for the contract to be drawn up . |
| 3 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
| 4 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 5 | It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans . |