Example sentences of "took [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
| 2 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
| 3 | DETECTIVES were trying to find out yesterday why scientists took 49 days to tell them a supposed murder victim was killed by drugs . |
| 4 | The last trip took forty days , by which time a dozen people had died of hunger . |
| 5 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 6 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 7 | The only reactor in full operation took six days to reach full power . |
| 8 | It took six days to replace the locks on the car , and all the while I was worrying that the thieves might try to steal it . |
| 9 | Baron Grimm , with whom Mozart had finally fallen out , arranged for his departure on a slow , cheap coach , which took 10 days to reach Strasbourg . |
| 10 | It took 44 days , rather than the scheduled 20 , to travel the 50 km to Lebong Hitam . |
| 11 | It took 21 days to get to Basra , through the Suez Canal , down the Red Sea ( that was not ) sharp left at Aden and up the Persian Gulf . |
| 12 | The whole peace-making took three days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Kept under police guard day and night , it took three days to reassemble the building and its contents . |
| 15 | A shot of the heron pond in Grand Teton , Wyoming took three days . |
| 16 | It was all a far cry from the first ascent of Everest 40 years ago , news of which took three days to reach London — on Coronation Day . |
| 17 | McKenna took three days to consider the offer before refusing , nominally on health grounds . |
| 18 | The 130-km journey from Belgrade to Kragujevac took three days on horseback and five by horse-drawn carriage , but in 1814 only Miloš , the metropolitan and the Turkish governor had such vehicles . |
| 19 | A shot of the heron pond in Grand Teton , Wyoming took three days . |
| 20 | For a journey that took three days . |
| 21 | The filming , which resulted in an eight-minute segment took three days from 8am to 7pm each day and standing in fire gear in the freezing , draughty shell of a building is not Hollywood . |
| 22 | It took three days to reach the town of Clujnapoca , where the generator was loaded on to a romanian aid wagon for the final stage of the journey . |
| 23 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 25 | and we went down the River Nile which took three days |
| 26 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
| 27 | ‘ Our journey in convoy from Liverpool through the Atlantic to West Africa took 17 days . |
| 28 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 29 | Filming on the farm took 5 days to complete , but as Albert 's son , George explains , the film crew had n't finished with him yet . |
| 30 | From beginning to end its composition took 18 days — the kind of speedwriting record only surpassed by Rossini . |