Example sentences of "it take [pron] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 2 | ‘ It takes you two days and half of two nights to find out that you do n't know ? ’ |
| 3 | Cor even if it takes you three days ! |
| 4 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 5 | It took me all day . |
| 6 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 7 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 8 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 9 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 10 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 11 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 12 | Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South . |
| 13 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 14 | It took them three days and they came up with nothing . |
| 15 | It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village . |
| 16 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 17 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 18 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 19 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 20 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 21 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |
| 22 | Oh it take our three days . |