Example sentences of "[noun] took a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 2 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |
| 3 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 4 | His philosophy took a long time to be appreciated , partly because he never pushed his own work , which was subsequently overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein . |
| 5 | Sims took a long time to think about answering that . |
| 6 | He was a perfectionist , and the job took a long time . |
| 7 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 8 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 9 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 10 | Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet . |
| 11 | The safety mattress took a shorter time to reach a lower maximum temperature — 84°C — and formed only 50–3 cubic metres of smoke . |
| 12 | The engine box had a centre ‘ handle ’ and Ian took a long time sighting his chimney by this . |
| 13 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 14 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 15 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 16 | The unpacking of the car and the packing and preparing of sledges took a long time . |
| 17 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 18 | Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘ |
| 19 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 20 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 21 | The College in Coleman 's reign took a long time to recover from the difficulties of its early days . |
| 22 | O'Hara took a long time to kick-start the motorbike from the kerb . |
| 23 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 24 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 25 | I was in command of a heavily laden Stirling which was renowned for the fact that on a cold night the engines took a long time , even with the grills closed , to warm up . |
| 26 | The sinews of political and economic integration required to enable the expanded raising of resources by the Crown took a long time to create . |
| 27 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 28 | She was always rushing off to the Housing Applicant Office and the interviews took a long time . |
| 29 | Those seven miles took a long time , but we worked a few things out . |