Example sentences of "it took [adv] [num] minutes " in BNC.
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1 | It took nearly five minutes before Delaney , wearing a second set of earphones , looked up sharply to make sure that the radioman , swearing at the weird interference , could hear the stream of dots and dashes coming in . |
2 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
3 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
4 | The way he told it , it took maybe five minutes . |
5 | It took only eight minutes for Portadown to take the lead . |
6 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
7 | It took only fifteen minutes before she was removing her bulbous black space helmet outside the house on avenue Foch . |
8 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
9 | It took only ten minutes of private weeping , however , to clear her head . |
10 | ‘ It took only 40 minutes to get there which is quite satisfactory . |
11 | It took only 40 minutes to get there which is quite satisfactory . |
12 | I mean it took about ten minutes , quarter of an hour altogether . |
13 | IT TOOK perhaps two minutes for Glenn Miller to line up his shot . |