Example sentences of "[conj] it take four [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid .
2 Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built .
3 and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you
4 I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith .
5 And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins .
6 Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor .
7 He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance .
8 Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there .
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