Example sentences of "it took us [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 2 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 3 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 4 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |
| 5 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 6 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |