Example sentences of "[conj] it took [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 2 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 3 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 4 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 9 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 10 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 11 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 12 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 13 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 14 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 17 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 18 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 19 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 20 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 21 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 22 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 23 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 24 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 25 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 26 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 27 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 28 | but it took five years |
| 29 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 30 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |