Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 32 | It took some time for such an admission to emerge . |
| 33 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 34 | Because of this last-minute genesis , it took some time for the Inland Revenue to turn Mr Major 's jottings into a workable form . |
| 35 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 36 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 37 | It took some time , and many lives were lost , before the stressing conditions to which an aircraft is subject were sufficiently understood . |
| 38 | It took some time to get the obstacle equipped with runners . |
| 39 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 40 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 41 | It took some time for all the records to be checked , but it 's now agreed that IBM Corp 's full year net loss for 1992 of $4,965m goes down in history as the largest corporate loss on record , taking the baton from General Motors Corp . |
| 42 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 43 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 44 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 45 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 46 | It took some time for the first volunteers to come forward . |
| 47 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 48 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |
| 49 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 50 | Erm it took some time you know through the mid fifties to run down the wartime contracts . |
| 51 | ‘ It took some time to bring your sister to a reasonable state of mind and to prevent her following Garry back to London . |
| 52 | It took some time for their masters to curb them . |
| 53 | It took some time before the real Kenneth Williams came to the surface . |
| 54 | It took some time to locate the bottle — normally as healthy as a young animal , Rory rarely had need of medication . |
| 55 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 56 | It took some time , and no little resolution , before the tightly curling mass hung round her face tangle-free at last , and she could crawl wearily into bed . |
| 57 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 58 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 59 | It did this time , too . |