Example sentences of "took [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Random insertions to balanced tree files that use two index entries per track took rather less time as the overflow percentage in the file built up . |
| 2 | Emily Davies was one of the few to argue that housekeeping took up little time and that women could in fact combine work and marriage , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson belonged to an even more select band who put this advice into practice . |
| 3 | Straightforward deliveries direct to readers took comparatively little time for ‘ ordinary ’ books housed in the Main Building : more than half ( 52% ) were delivered within ten minutes , and more than nine out of ten ( 92% ) had been delivered within twenty minutes . |
| 4 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 5 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 6 | Those who knew Hebrew took significantly less time to sort the pack than those who did not in the condition that required symbols having the same name to be put together . |