Example sentences of "[noun sg] took [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 2 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 3 | His philosophy took a long time to be appreciated , partly because he never pushed his own work , which was subsequently overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein . |
| 4 | He was a perfectionist , and the job took a long time . |
| 5 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 6 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 7 | The dock company in due course took a long lease of the area in question from the Secretary of State for Defence , although the ports authority insisted that the necessary planning consent be obtained before the lease was signed . |
| 8 | In the UK , the Government took a long look at the spectrum before launching a fifth and sixth TV channel . |
| 9 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 10 | DS Stuart Finn took a long drag on his cigarette and nodded at the board . |
| 11 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 12 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 13 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 14 | The College in Coleman 's reign took a long time to recover from the difficulties of its early days . |
| 15 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 16 | The sinews of political and economic integration required to enable the expanded raising of resources by the Crown took a long time to create . |
| 17 | Two years ago the couple took a long holiday . |