Example sentences of "it took [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years of training compared favourably with the minimum three years it took to acquire a degree . |
| 2 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps the most surprising " own goal " scored by the Command was the length of time that it took to appreciate the value of Radio Countermeasures ( RCM ) . |
| 4 | In the time it took to negotiate the funds Rothmans came to an arrangement with Sedgefield . ’ |
| 5 | So I had to wait fo at Enfield Chase for another bus and the bus from Enfield Chase yeah you go along all these piddley little so it 's from erm ten it took me it took takes an hour-and-a-half on the bus . |
| 6 | land up , up there , it took , it took put the bill in , it 's next , it 's next , we need this next two or three bloody month and I was on about this and I was on about that ev it 's possible this is what a lot of them going and getting , you do n't want it |
| 7 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 8 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Throughout the night , throughout the seven hours it took to cover the one hundred and twenty kilometres to Leipzig , they had not passed another vehicle until they joined the rush-hour traffic into the city . |
| 10 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 11 | Thus the more time it took to program a job , the more likely that programming and operating were differentiated . |
| 12 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 13 | If the answer is still no , then you really need to think hard about how long it took to produce the material and whether that expenditure of time was justified . |
| 14 | Only just as long as it took to get a licence . ’ |
| 15 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 16 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 17 | Your time from the station now equals the time it took to get the 10° change of bearing . |
| 18 | Well theoretically I would wait as long as it took to wash the mess off the roof . |
| 19 | Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s . |
| 20 | ‘ Nor the number of days it took to build the Palazzo Farnese ? ’ |
| 21 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 22 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 23 | It surprised me how long it took to make the change to HTV . |