Example sentences of "[adv] it took [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes .
2 Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg .
3 So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies .
4 stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that .
5 Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome .
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