Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moved premises five times in five decades to keep abreast of space requirements . |
| 2 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 3 | It took Paul five hours to buy all the materials from Waitrose , Safeway and a man in the high street with a shop that shut at two-thirty on Saturdays . |
| 4 | He spoke so casually that it took Bernice five seconds to realize the implications of what he had said and another five to fear it . |
| 5 | Still , it gave Mary five minutes of fame overtime which might not have been allocated otherwise . |