Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) .
2 Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt .
3 They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary .
4 The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust .
5 Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now .
6 We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off .
7 Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know .
8 A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter .
9 Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences .
10 I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’
11 The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’
12 In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies .
13 Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control .
14 Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge .
15 And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature .
16 It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high .
17 As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much .
18 There are 98 ways that a quark can travel between two points if it interacts three times with gluons .
19 He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time
20 Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with .
21 It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us .
22 Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision .
23 But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be .
24 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
25 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
26 The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion .
27 So because it worked last time I used it .
28 Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’
29 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
30 Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs .
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