Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 2 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 3 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 4 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 5 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 6 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 7 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 8 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 9 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 10 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 11 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 12 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 13 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 14 | Azuma recorded that at 79°F it took 24 hours for the eggs to hatch . |
| 15 | It was madness to begin with , the only trouble is , it took forty years for the government to discover it 's own craziness and to begin to dismantle it , we are now reaping the legacy of that , of , of the , the accumulated folly of forty years is now bursting upon our cities . |
| 16 | It took seven days for the swelling to subside completely and a note of the allergy was made in her nursing and medical notes . |
| 17 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 18 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 19 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 20 | It took some time for the War Office to be persuaded that fugitives from the enemy could usefully serve their adopted country . |
| 21 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 22 | Because of this last-minute genesis , it took some time for the Inland Revenue to turn Mr Major 's jottings into a workable form . |
| 23 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 24 | It took some time for the first volunteers to come forward . |