Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] weeks [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 2 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 3 | It took two weeks to weave , working ten hours a day . |
| 4 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 5 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 6 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 7 | Like all the gardens here , it took several weeks to put together , but will have disappeared by the end of next weekend . |
| 8 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |