Example sentences of "it take [adj] month [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 2 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 3 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 4 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 5 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 6 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 7 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 8 | It took five months of telephone calls , letters and faxes to Dr Neil Sontag , before a replacement set arrived , only to find that they were the same , unusable version . |
| 9 | It took several months for that to come home and safe . |