Example sentences of "but it [verb] time [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Er but it takes time to recover from the er the the shock and the experience and the unnerving .
2 Satellite surveillance is all very well , but it takes time to get information back and in that time a naval force can have moved a fair distance .
3 The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains .
4 In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered .
5 He visited prisons in France , Holland , Austria , Prussia , Denmark , Sweden and Russia — but it took time to establish his authority and certainly his relationships with administrators and staff were often initially imbued with deep suspicion or outright opposition .
6 But it took time to develop interest .
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