Example sentences of "took just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 2 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 3 | The judge , who took just 45 minutes to decide on the sentences , said he accepted Fraser was a drug addict who had admitted what he had done . |
| 4 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 5 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 6 | According to the report , if BBC TV took just two minutes of commercials per hour , it could earn £334 million by the end of the decade . |
| 7 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 8 | The Committee took just under 12 months to carry out its investigation . |
| 9 | It took just five days for ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ to give Rough Trade their first number one album . |
| 10 | While in the quarter-century from 1950 to 1975 recorded notifiable offences per 100,000 population increased by just over 3,000 , from 1,094 to 4,283 , it took just the decade from 1976 to 1986 for crimes per 100,000 population to increase another 3,000 , from 4,346 to 7,331 ( Criminal Statistics , 1986 , Table 2.2 ) . |
| 11 | Manhandling the aeroplane down the slipway on an old flat-bed trolley , five of us took just twenty minutes to get the big beast bobbing happily on the briny . |
| 12 | The tour took just 15 minutes — and then came the moment on which Lynsey 's destiny hinged . |
| 13 | It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year . |
| 14 | I 've also been in the situation at Old Trafford where we took just two points out of last 12 and still only lost the title by four points . ’ |
| 15 | Landscaping was kept to a minimum and construction took just five months . |
| 16 | As a result , when Steven was born that same year , she took just two weeks off . |
| 17 | It took just over an hour to empty Wavebreaker of her garbage and dirty linen , and then to hook up the shoreside electricity and pump diesel and fresh water into her tanks . |
| 18 | Using hot water from a kettle , it took just over five minutes to heat up to operating temperature . |
| 19 | ( My first sermon in Burmese , delivered very slowly , took just over three minutes ! ) |
| 20 | The flight to Dublin took just on an hour . |
| 21 | It took just a few instants for him to realise that the huddled figure was Mayli Koulo . |
| 22 | It took just ten seconds to transfer the limp bodies . |
| 23 | The rebuild took just a year , the aircraft having previously suffered an accident at Clacton in January 1986 . |
| 24 | With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well . |
| 25 | It took just 500th of a second to take each snap . |
| 26 | Carry On Columbus — a £2.25 million quickie , which took just 30 days to make and , Carry On fans will be delighted to learn , is as cheeky and irreverent as ever . |
| 27 | CARLISLE 'S George Oghani took just two minutes to hit the back of the net . |
| 28 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 29 | On adjacent courts , Amanda Brown — the former Wightman Cup player — shone as she romped to victory over Queen 's No. 1 Alison Grant 6–1 6–1 , while team mate Judy Rich — who this time last year led the Queen 's attack — took just four games more to defeat Karen Cass in the other singles rubber . |
| 30 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |