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Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [num] days " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ?
2	‘ It takes you two days and half of two nights to find out that you do n't know ? ’
3	Cor even if it takes you three days !
4	It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible .
5	When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles .
6	It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) .
7	It took them two days before they reached human habitation .
8	Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South .
9	It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo .
10	It took them three days and they came up with nothing .
11	It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village .
12	Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world .
13	Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world .
14	We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth .
15	Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway .