Example sentences of "it took a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a fuller self-knowledge to do something effective about them . |
| 2 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 3 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 4 | It took a further two decades before ‘ the elderly ’ were once more to experience the high profile that they had achieved in the debates of the 1940s and 1950s concerning their position and role in the economy . |
| 5 | It took a further five days for America 's ‘ quick-reaction force ’ of marines and helicopters to turn up . |
| 6 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 7 | Paula might look as if butter would n't melt in her mouth but when her mind was made up to something it took a stronger woman than Grace to talk her out of it . |