Example sentences of "[conj] it took 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 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 4 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |