Example sentences of "it took four [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It took four visits ( over a seven-week period ) to put an end to her phobia once and for all and to allow her to lead the happy , normal life she so desired .
2 It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor .
3 I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith .
4 It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer .
5 It took four hours to fix .
6 It took four minutes to connect .
7 It took four days for the company to identify the real cause .
8 Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor .
9 It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’
10 Oh , oh , it took four sides , James , after this .
11 It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 .
12 It took four nomes to carry it .
13 It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out !
14 It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making .
15 It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely .
16 In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop .
17 When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark .
18 Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built .
19 stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that .
20 It took four years of hard work and fundraising .
21 ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins .
22 he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him
23 Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid .
24 It took four men to heave the huge Victorian cast-iron bath up the stairs .
25 He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance .
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