Example sentences of "it took [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took many forms . |
| 2 | It took many visits to reach our self-set target of non-respondents : thirty primary and thirty secondary teachers willing to discuss the Oxfordshire scheme and to go through the questionnaire orally with us . |
| 3 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 4 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 5 | The development of coloured carp appealed to the oriental penchant for patience and order , for it took many generations to produce recognisable bloodlines of Kohaku , Sanke or Showa . |
| 6 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 8 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 9 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 10 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 11 | It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme . |
| 12 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 13 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 14 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 15 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 16 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 17 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 18 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 19 | Still , it took all sorts . |
| 20 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 21 | These figures are hardly surprising — it took most respondents up to six weeks to find a replacement . |
| 22 | It took any jokes he might 've made and threw them away . |
| 23 | The courthouse windows were open but the radiators below them were hot ; it took several hours for any changes in setting to make themselves felt through the massive heating system , and it was impossible to keep up with the irrational temperament of the month . |
| 24 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 25 | It took several attempts to get it right , but in the end I felt justifiably proud of my literary effort . |
| 26 | When replacing the case for example , it took several attempts before it was positioned correctly , and the power button worked properly again . |
| 27 | It took several minutes to gather them back and put them under starter 's orders . |
| 28 | It took several minutes , and then suddenly another wave pulled the last line free , unwinding from her thigh , to relinquish its grip like some long thin tentacle . |
| 29 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |
| 30 | It took several minutes before they were ready to leave , and even then Mabel hovered in the doorway , saying plaintively , ‘ You wo n't be long , will you ? |