Example sentences of "it took [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four or five days for that news to reach Strasbourg . |
| 2 | It took four and a half hours to reach the summit and , believing it would be easier and quicker to regain the glacier by traversing the mountain , we continued our crab-like progression to the west . |
| 3 | It took fifteen or twenty years for the prosperous white planters to see the dangers of a community in which the vast majority of the population were slaves from Africa and there was no room for any white man below their own level of prosperity . |
| 4 | As early as 1872 , he was proposing the formation of a national body for deaf people , but it took long and persistent efforts on his part before the National Deaf and Dumb Society was founded in 1879 . |
| 5 | And er I er penetrated , it took two or three days in the womb with this spoon , and the heard something go pop . |
| 6 | It took one and a half days to the confluence with the Tisza with mosquitos , heat , sometimes unbearable , and camping wild on sandbanks . |
| 7 | It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel . |
| 8 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 9 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 10 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 11 | It took more than a month to find and sign a contract with another company to complete the remaining work . |
| 12 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 13 | AT the magistrates court it took more than an hour to read out all the charges . |
| 14 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 15 | He made Joynson-Hicks ( good on penal reform but illiberal on all else ) Home Secretary , and thus firmly launched the Home Office , which had been different in the days of Harcourt , Asquith and Churchill , upon a course of dour obscurantism from which it took three or four decades to recover . |
| 16 | ‘ Sn-snuggled … ? ’ she spluttered , but , when she thought about it — and with the memory so recent , it took less than a second — she had to concede that perhaps ‘ snuggled ’ was n't so very far off the mark . |