Example sentences of "took a long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The College in Coleman 's reign took a long time to recover from the difficulties of its early days . |
| 32 | Hong Kong-born Candice , who is of Oriental appearance , took a long time to recover from her ordeal . |
| 33 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 34 | It took a long time to bring the fire under control , the local pubs kept open for three days and nights . |
| 35 | It took a long time to focus and get rid of the swimming water . |
| 36 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 37 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 38 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 39 | It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff . |
| 40 | Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand . |
| 41 | The concept that social intervention could have effects unintended by the practitioners , and which could be revealed only by asking the clients for their subjective impressions , took a long time to achieve currency , and had to do battle with the time-honoured attitude in professional practice that the client could not be expected to know what he , or more usually she , wanted . |
| 42 | It took a long time to figure out how his hair goes . |
| 43 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 44 | Doubtless Mr Pickard was pleased to have the support of the medical men of the town — a great fillip to his trade — though it is questionable whether he would have received like acclamation from the superintendent of Lichfield Cemetery , for iron coffins , as well as lead shells , took a long time to break down if deposited in the soil . |
| 45 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 46 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 47 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 48 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 49 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 50 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 51 | At any rate it took a long time to synthesize . |
| 52 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 53 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 54 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 55 | It took a long time coming . |
| 56 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 57 | Sims took a long time to think about answering that . |
| 58 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 59 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 60 | It was one of those accidents that took a long time to begin to feel serious . |