Example sentences of "take [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 2 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 3 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 4 | However , if a tank bottom with some peat and gravel or sand is provided it will establish well , but will take quite a long time . |
| 5 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 6 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 7 | It 's gon na take quite a long time . |
| 8 | So it can take quite a long time to process applications to that point . |
| 9 | The clearance of the staging at the end of the bridge took only a short time , and it was not until they were moving once more that Alexei had a sudden thought . |
| 10 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 11 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 12 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 13 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 14 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 15 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 16 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 17 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 18 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |