Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] take [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years . |
| 2 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 3 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 5 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 6 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 8 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 9 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 10 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 11 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 12 | It does take a long while does n't it ? |
| 13 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 14 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |