Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 2 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 3 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 4 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
| 5 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |