Example sentences of "it took four [noun] [prep] " 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 shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 4 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 5 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 6 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 7 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 8 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 9 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |