Example sentences of "it took three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took three pints of home brew , each , before we stopped scratching . |
| 2 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 3 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 4 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 5 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 6 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 7 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 8 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 9 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 10 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 11 | Kept under police guard day and night , it took three days to reassemble the building and its contents . |
| 12 | It took three days to reach the town of Clujnapoca , where the generator was loaded on to a romanian aid wagon for the final stage of the journey . |
| 13 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 15 | It took three years , and the man was backed every inch of the way by his union . |
| 16 | It took three years to build , starting in 1785 . |
| 17 | In 1992 , it took three competitors from the London insurance market under its wing : Cairn Computer Systems with its Ingres-based technology and accompanying client list was bought for £200,000. £800,000 was raised through a share issue for the City division of Weir Systems ( CI No 2,076 ) which also added open systems expertise more long term contracts . |
| 18 | It took three quarters of an hour to get it out and meanwhile it did some damage . |
| 19 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 20 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 21 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |