Example sentences of "and it took [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 2 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 3 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 4 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 5 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 6 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 7 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 8 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 9 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 10 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 11 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 12 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |