Example sentences of "it took [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 2 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 3 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 4 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 5 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 6 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |