Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] long for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males . |
| 2 | It did not take long for the police to trace Mrs Dyer to Caversham where she was arrested . |
| 3 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It does not take long for the difficulties encountered in finding a buyer at the contingent price during earlier disposals to be forgotten . |