Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 2 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 3 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 4 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
| 5 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 6 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 7 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 8 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 9 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 10 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |