Example sentences of "[pron] take them a long " in BNC.

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1 Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war .
2 However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles .
3 THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad .
4 it took them a long time to begin with when he started .
5 It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time .
6 and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent .
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