Example sentences of "take [pron] a week [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they had twenty two thousand people round this year , it 's takes him a week to recover , the poor man . |
| 2 | It took me a week to recover , and it was one of the best weeks of my life . |
| 3 | It took me a week to get myself together again , and by the time you got back from leave I 'd left Johannesburg because there were n't any jobs for me there . |
| 4 | By the end of the race he had lost nearly two stone from a frame that has no spare fat , and it took him a week to start eating properly again and a further three weeks to regain the lost weight . |
| 5 | I bet it took him a week to think that one up . |
| 6 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |