Example sentences of "took [adv] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's impossible to pick out any single painting for praise , except that 24 Hour Inspections , Normandy 1944 took only three hours to do ! |
| 2 | Cambridge took only three minutes to take the lead through Matts Decker , a German engineering student . |
| 3 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 4 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 5 | It took only three years for Totten to move St Johnstone through the pecking order to the Premier Division and the club were in the top half of the table when , on 14 December , the McDiarmid Park chairman , Geoff Brown , decided a change was necessary . |
| 6 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 7 | In 1837 Gooch was appointed joint principal engineer with George Stephenson and was responsible for the line 's construction , which was his greatest achievement and required many heavy civil-engineering works , including a two-mile tunnel under the Pennine hills , the boring of which from thirteen shafts took over three years . |
| 8 | He took just three wickets for 76.66 each at an average of 4.42 runs an over . |
| 9 | John Fitzgerald and Anders Jarryd , the Wimbledon champions , took nearly three hours to win their opening match 6-3 , 6-7 , 6-1 , 7-5 over Paul Annacone and Christo van Rensberg . |
| 10 | Then came all the fine-tuning and the test runs , which took roughly three months to complete . |
| 11 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 12 | According to Samuel , the calculation took about three months to complete . |
| 13 | Shaved this Lieutenant Sergeant Major eyebrow off when he was sleeping one night , and he was in front of the , the Colonel Chief and Regional so what he did , he , cos it , it took , taken ages , took about three months to grow back , so what he did was he shaved the other one off as well |
| 14 | That took about three seconds . |
| 15 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 16 | It must have took about three years any way . |
| 17 | She only took out three pages , so it ca n't be bad . ’ |
| 18 | Then he opened a small black bag and took out three newspapers . |
| 19 | It took almost three days to make the appointments necessary to meet three local judges . |
| 20 | Because programs can store any segment of any letter , this process is far less laborious than it once was , though it still took around three months for the nine fonts which make up the Ecotype family . |