Example sentences of "[noun sg] it took [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 3 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 4 | And he said Eventually with ropes and various other tackle it took seven of them to lift the piano back up again out of the gap that it had produced in the stairs and get it up the stairs . |
| 5 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 6 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |