Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 2 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 3 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you start with a new house and new furniture it is usually about five years before anybody can get asthma in that house : it takes that time for the mite dung deposits to build up . |
| 5 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 6 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 7 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 10 | It took some time for the War Office to be persuaded that fugitives from the enemy could usefully serve their adopted country . |
| 11 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 12 | It took some time for such an admission to emerge . |
| 13 | Because of this last-minute genesis , it took some time for the Inland Revenue to turn Mr Major 's jottings into a workable form . |
| 14 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 15 | It took some time for all the records to be checked , but it 's now agreed that IBM Corp 's full year net loss for 1992 of $4,965m goes down in history as the largest corporate loss on record , taking the baton from General Motors Corp . |
| 16 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 17 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 18 | It took some time for the first volunteers to come forward . |
| 19 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 20 | It took some time for their masters to curb them . |
| 21 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 22 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 23 | It took some time before the real Kenneth Williams came to the surface . |
| 24 | It means more time in classrooms . |
| 25 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |