Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 2 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 3 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 4 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 5 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |