Example sentences of "have taken [num] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 2 | Blue Planet has taken five years to complete and is made on the Imax ( largest screen ) format . |
| 3 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 4 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 5 | It all left yesterday 's would-be refugees furious at the latest delay in an evacuation that has taken two months to negotiate . |
| 6 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 7 | The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders . |
| 8 | The in-depth report by Philip Mackie , epidemiologist with Darlington Health Authority , has taken seven months to complete and reveals head injuries and poisoning among the most common type of childhood accident . |
| 9 | The report has taken 6 months to prepare . |
| 10 | He has taken three characters to make the basis of this chapter . |
| 11 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 12 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 13 | Since 1979 , the Government has taken three measures to lower the replacement ratio — that is , to increase the gap between a person 's income when in work compared with when he or she is drawing the dole . |
| 14 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |
| 15 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 16 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 17 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 18 | It " would have taken 15 minutes to reach San Salvador and Marianella was probably transferred for interrogation to the Military School . |
| 19 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 20 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 21 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 22 | The special , which had taken six months to plan , was axed after Best called United ‘ f***ing crap ’ and his former team-mate Bobby Charlton ‘ a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 23 | It was a chutzpah ; Zvi Lipsky had taken thirty years to build up his practice and reputation . |
| 24 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
| 25 | She asked for news of Robin and Jenny , and Aunt Sarah launched into an ironic description of how a Japanese tourist half Jenny 's size and four times her age had proposed marriage to her ( ’ At least I hope it was marriage ’ ) , and how Robin had got locked overnight in the bar of the hotel where he was working and had taken two days to sleep it off ; and gradually Ruth fought down her feelings . |
| 26 | The communications link had taken two years to pioneer , in situ long before a road or railway . |
| 27 | He described the heap of rubble from which it and the rest of the building had risen and how he and the owner , who came up for weekends , had taken eight years to finish it and turn it into the Mirimar which we now perceived it to be . |
| 28 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 29 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |
| 30 | But he had taken three years to get there . |