Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] took [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was after that weekend gig in Zimbabwe — but I seem to remember that you took two weeks ’ leave immediately after that , so perhaps you never knew . |
| 2 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 3 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 4 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 5 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 6 | So so you can if you took if you took one week off every three assignments |
| 7 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 8 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 9 | The Royal Navy had had ample warning that Jones was putting to sea again but , guarding the door of the already raided stable , was patrolling the Cumberland coast , while he made his way round the far side of Ireland and soon reports were reaching London of his activities in Irish waters on the early stages of his voyage , though they took several weeks to arrive . |