Example sentences of "it take another [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco .
2 He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory .
3 Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition .
4 By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process .
5 It took another step down .
6 Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track .
7 It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV .
8 It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities .
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