Example sentences of "n't take [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It ca n't take too long to prepare Wavebreaker for a long voyage , can it ? ’ |
| 2 | The last bit of ascent into the upper coire is stony , but it does n't take too long to cross the ice-worn boiler plates to reach the lovely little lochan nestling there . |
| 3 | So that 's it for this week , sorry we did n't have room for our promised body building item , I 've been told to work on my pecs before we get back to it and er it should n't take too long . |
| 4 | Erm I hope it did n't take too long to read our statement . |
| 5 | But they hope it wo n't take too long or they 'll be rocking around the grandfather clock . |
| 6 | Do n't take too long then cos that water 's pretty cold quick then have you eaten that all up Charlotte ? |
| 7 | Yesterday things looked pretty hopeful but that it would n't take too long to get the whole thing sorted out , but I must admit things seem to be escalating and getting a lot worse now . |
| 8 | because kidney do n't take as long to cook |
| 9 | I know , but it wo n't take as long for her to get there as it would if she becomes a doctor |
| 10 | I know , but it wo n't take as long for her to get there as it will if she becomes a doctor . |
| 11 | The beauty of small lightweight expeditions is that they do n't take that long . |
| 12 | And it does n't take that long . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry , it 's probably me I 'm , ma maybe it does n't take that long . |
| 14 | it should n't take that long |
| 15 | ha , ha , I bet you will , it wo n't take that long to unpick it though but I mean you 've got a , quite a selection there to choose have n't you ? |
| 16 | It wo n't take that long . |
| 17 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 18 | ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’ |
| 19 | Now here of course , and , and by now we 've reached the closing pages of the book , though it 's actually quite a short book , erm , it does n't take very long to read . |
| 20 | three discs so that wo n't take very long . |
| 21 | or what have you , but erm , it do n't take very long |
| 22 | They do n't take very long to come . |
| 23 | to him , did n't take very long . |
| 24 | The only reason I can er play is that , your dinner wo n't take very long to get . |
| 25 | cauliflower wo n't take very long |