Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 4 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 5 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 7 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 8 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 9 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 10 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 11 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 12 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 13 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 16 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 17 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 18 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 19 | It took thirty minutes for them to locate a frayed section of the Bridge ; force its weave apart with clamps and keep the gap open with plastic crates . |
| 20 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
| 21 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 22 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 23 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 24 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 25 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 26 | Azuma recorded that at 79°F it took 24 hours for the eggs to hatch . |
| 27 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 28 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 29 | I asked for my Mother to be brought from the UK to give me comfort in my husband 's place , it took 3 weeks for this to happen . |
| 30 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |