Example sentences of "[verb] take a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 2 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 8 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 11 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 12 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 13 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 14 | Citing cases , though usually a necessary part of the moot , tends to take a long time and to be boring for the audience . |
| 15 | ‘ This is going to take a long time , ’ said Tony . |
| 16 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 17 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
| 18 | That 's going to take a long time . |
| 19 | We have come to realize that many of us will not see the improvements in our quality of life , as this is going to take a long time . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just going to take a little time to put into operation . |
| 21 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 22 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 23 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 24 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 25 | It would all have taken a fair time . ’ |
| 26 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 27 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 28 | It does n't have to take a long time , it 's up to us here and now . |
| 29 | In 1956 the British forces had appeared to take an unconscionable time to get from Cyprus to Port Said . |
| 30 | But those old ideas do take a long time to die . |