Example sentences of "it take [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like you say , it takes much more time to get into it . |
| 2 | Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification . |
| 3 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 4 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 5 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 6 | It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit . |
| 7 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 8 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |