Example sentences of "it took many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 4 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 5 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 . |