Example sentences of "took [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean if you took that ten percent , it would be two thousand a year from |
2 | you 'll took that three grand |
3 | You ought to have took that three grand |
4 | It then took another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg it out . |
5 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
6 | It took another two months for the contract to be drawn up . |
7 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
8 | It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger . |
9 | It took another sixty years to achieve this ; Forster 's Education Act was not passed till 1870 . |
10 | It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely . |
11 | ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . ) |
12 | This took another eight minutes . |
13 | And since Cambridge University of 1924 was hardly likely to breed recruits for the Labour Party — that took another three years — the young men and women of the university could not do much but move , or move further , towards the Conservative side . |
14 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |
15 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
16 | This took another twenty minutes . |
17 | England training took another twenty years to get organized . |
18 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
19 | In nineteen eighty nine , at the last European elections , Labour took forty five seats to the Conservatives thirty two and we are looking forward to the elections in June when the party opposite , ridden by divisions and disagreements , will suffer further loses and Labour , we hope , will make further gains . |
20 | Captain Eva Burrows took forty five corps cadets to the first corps cadets congress in that country . |
21 | Now wearing five tanks , the final distance to Keld Head took some two hours , including a one hour decompression stop , calculated by the Aladin computers 100 metres from the entrance ! |
22 | For a while peace , work , food , clothing and shelter were all that most people hankered after , and the basic rebuilding of the economy and their shattered way of life took some two decades . |
23 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |
24 | On March 2-3 cargo vessels and fishing boats seized in Durrës and other Albanian ports took some 900 Albanians to Brindisi and Otranto . |
25 | All that took some five hours for very little result . |
26 | It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans . |
27 | The tale took some ten minutes to tell , Sandison being careful to allow no inconsistencies to creep in . |
28 | It was n't they took three hundred people the last time and now he 's talking about three hundred . |
29 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
30 | When I took these two guitars into the studio to try them out , over the course of the first hour everyone and their cat called in and could n't resist having a go . |