Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] take [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take long for the police to trace Mrs Dyer to Caversham where she was arrested . |
| 2 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 3 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 4 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 5 | It did n't take long for the cobwebs of sleep to clear and for her to realize that it was the fire-bell . |
| 6 | It did n't take long for the cracks to show . |
| 7 | It does not take long for the difficulties encountered in finding a buyer at the contingent price during earlier disposals to be forgotten . |