Example sentences of "it have take three [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation .
2 It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts .
3 It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce .
4 Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ?
5 It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect .
6 It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market .
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