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 He took just three wickets for 76.66 each at an average of 4.42 runs an over .
7 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 .
8 Then came all the fine-tuning and the test runs , which took roughly three months to complete .
9 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 .
10 According to Samuel , the calculation took about three months to complete .
11 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
12 That took about three seconds .
13 I think it took about three years to get to a normal level .
14 It must have took about three years any way .
15 It took almost three days to make the appointments necessary to meet three local judges .
16 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 .
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