Example sentences of "[conj] it take [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 2 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 3 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 4 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 5 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 6 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 7 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |