Example sentences of "it take four [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
2 It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears .
3 It took four days for the company to identify the real cause .
4 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 .
5 It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely .
6 In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop .
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