Example sentences of "have taken [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such monitoring should not only be backward , it must be forward looking and where it can be seen that a task has taken longer than anticipated , the effect of such delay should be immediately considered in relation to the overall programme . |
| 2 | He has taken longer than expected to show some of the skills and pace expected . |
| 3 | An earlier item on the Review Board agenda has taken longer than expected . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 5 | The report — which has taken more than a year to prepare in one of the most complex inquiries undertaken by Sir Anthony 's office — will address the question of when the department first became negligent if it is shown to have been aware of the possible difficulties . |
| 6 | It has taken more than 40 years , we are told , as well as improved autostradas , for the first ‘ Zimmern ’ signs to appear in Montepulciano . |
| 7 | He made his debut for Gloucestershire in 1981 and has taken more than 400 first-class wickets . |
| 8 | Reaching agreement has taken more than a year as the machinery rings have continued to argue their case , backed by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society and the accountants Reeves and Neylan . |
| 9 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 10 | We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded . |
| 11 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 12 | But it would have taken more than me to convince Harold Wilson that this was so and that conspiracies were not afoot . |
| 13 | The whole business ca n't have taken more than five seconds . |
| 14 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 15 | But it would have taken more than just time and ingenuity . |
| 16 | Such a sum would have taken more than three-quarters of the annual income of a well-paid British skilled worker . |
| 17 | Seven curtain calls , and they would have taken more if Rose , concerned at the over-time the stagehands were in danger of earning , had n't signalled Freddie Reynalde to play the audience out . |
| 18 | Typewriter script , which became the world 's most familiar type-face between 1867 and 1985 , will have taken less than a decade to change from a staple into a mannerism . |
| 19 | Clausthaler , which claims to have taken more than half of the sizeable German nablab market , stresses the premium element in its latest advertising and uses the line ‘ Its strength is its taste ’ . |
| 20 | By the end of the third day Iraqi resistance appeared to be collapsing , with the allies claiming to have taken more than 30,000 prisoners and to have destroyed over 2,000 tanks . |
| 21 | The debate in Government had taken longer than we anticipated . |
| 22 | The ‘ packing up ’ at the flat at Victoria had taken longer than expected , and the departure to the country had been twice postponed . |
| 23 | Since typing had taken longer than anticipated the booklet would not appear until the end of December . |
| 24 | He had not realised quite how many customers were attracted by the Car Hire firms of Oxford , especially American customers ; and checking the lists had taken longer than he 'd imagined . |
| 25 | She said the notice was very detailed and it had taken longer than expected to draw up . |
| 26 | A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out . |
| 27 | He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout . |
| 28 | In 1985 the firm changed from a federal structure of 12 individual practices into a single unit — a process that had taken more than three years to achieve . |
| 29 | The shadows were sparse and the light was cruel , as though the noonday devil had taken more than his share out of malice and greed . |
| 30 | A hand on her arm stopped her before she had taken more than three steps . |