Example sentences of "took four [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 2 | Anyway , I took four samples of the drinking water which I will take to the races this evening . ’ |
| 3 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 4 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 5 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 6 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |