Example sentences of "[adv] took [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while . |
| 2 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 3 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 4 | I used to drink really quite strong before , but I decided to give up erm , like , take less sugar , so if you take less sugar , I think I only took two sugars anyway , 'cos my tea was so strong , 'cos 'cos the stronger it is , you need more sugar to sweeten it . |
| 5 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 6 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |
| 7 | I only took three quarters of an hour to get there . |
| 8 | Although they only took 20 minutes to arrive , if George could have given a map reference , as well as his address , they could have got there that much sooner . |
| 9 | Remember how your baby , after weeks of aimless standing around holding onto the fireguard , suddenly took five steps across the room when nobody was looking ? |
| 10 | Making the mattes for this alone took two artists three months , for a shot lasting less than 20 seconds . |
| 11 | Ludo and I just took one side each and approached every table with snapshots of Tamsin . |
| 12 | The usual route was through Pamplona , Logroño , Santo Domingo de la Calzada , Burgos , Frómista , León and Astorga ; bridges were constructed where necessary and information given to pilgrims to assist their journey , which generally took 14 days from Roncevaux in the Pyrenees . |
| 13 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 14 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 15 | It usually took four policemen to control her . |
| 16 | These meetings took place every year until 1965 , they usually took one day and the French participants used to call them ‘ Cashmere meetings ’ because , after voicing their disinclination to cooperate , they would leave and go to buy Scottish pullovers . |
| 17 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
| 18 | Whitney and Hughes both took four wickets , and all 10 wickets fell to catches , as in the Australian first innings : only once previously ( WI v India , Bridgetown , 1982–83 ) have the first 20 wickets in a Test fallen to catches , and the eventual 33 catches in this match was a new Test record ( as was the fact that no-one was bowled — a first for a completed Test ) . |
| 19 | Mark Feltham and Tony Murphy , who both took 35 wickets last year , though Feltham 's came at 28 and Murphy 's at 48 , are the back-up seamers , with Andrew Robson and Nick Peters having been released . |
| 20 | Swift , 16 , making his debut for Southport at Formby , also took five wickets as his side won comfortably by 10 wickets . |
| 21 | The players and officials enjoyed a cold buffet lunch in a marquee which also took two hours but included a number of speeches and a Loyal Toast . |
| 22 | But the 25-year-old tour newcomer also took three putts at the seventeenth , spinning out of the hole from three feet , then went into sand at the last thinning his recovery . |
| 23 | The route stretches some twelve to fifteen miles and parties often took two days and a night to make the journey , leaving the corpse in the " deadhouse " at Blades ( now ill ruins ) overnight . |
| 24 | He claimed it often took three weeks for written details to arrive on his desk . |
| 25 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 26 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |
| 27 | Fire and ambulance crews were called to Lincoln Villas in North Ormesby and immediately took four casualties to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 28 | He had one further glass of wine and then took 16 nitrazepam tablets , leaving four in the bottle . |
| 29 | I filled my pockets with bread , then took two pistols and the powder for them . |
| 30 | He then took two bottles out with the same result . |