Example sentences of "it took [adj] [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 tremendous courage for Roebuck to fight back from his crippling injury , but there is a further chapter to the story . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 4 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 5 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 6 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 7 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 8 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 9 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 10 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |
| 11 | It took several minutes for Joseph to recover his composure and only then was he able to see by the light of the fires that the rear of the communal hut was divided up into tiny stall-like compartments for the pholy 's wives and daughters . |
| 12 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 13 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
| 14 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 15 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |