Example sentences of "it take five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took five minutes to establish the link , and for the operator to get out Delaney 's short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the drop zone . |
| 2 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 3 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
| 4 | It took five hours to reach Tagmout , our overnight spot , first crossing the dusty plain then wiggling up long valleys , over spurs and through gorges — the road simply gouged out of the rock and wickedly rough on the vehicle . |
| 5 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 6 | It took five months of telephone calls , letters and faxes to Dr Neil Sontag , before a replacement set arrived , only to find that they were the same , unusable version . |
| 7 | but it took five years |
| 8 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |