Example sentences of "it do not take long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take long . |
| 2 | In the same week in which President Bush appeared on national television brandishing $3,200 worth of cocaine ( coercively obtained from a dealer who was dragged a block or two nearer the White House ) to raise the air-time mileage he earns on drugs , it did not take long for outrage to be expressed . |
| 3 | Still , it did not take long to sell , and as soon as people started to look over it , she told her family . |
| 4 | It did not take long to see the extension of the concept . |
| 5 | Compared with what was happening in contemporary marine invertebrates , the visible changes in mammalian skeletons during the early part of the Tertiary were fast and dramatic ; it did not take long before the roles of larger herbivores and carnivores were filled by mammalian animals . |
| 6 | It did not take long for the police to trace Mrs Dyer to Caversham where she was arrested . |
| 7 | Given the will and serious intent , it did not take long for me to become acquainted with Hellen 's colleagues , ‘ Wally ’ Hamilton and Oscar Burritt . |
| 8 | It did not take long for engineers to realise they could use more than one microphone , and ‘ balance ’ the music internally . |
| 9 | It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ . |
| 10 | It did not take long upon his return from Hong Kong for Lugard 's sensitive nose to detect an atmosphere of insubordination in Northern Nigeria . |
| 11 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |
| 12 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 13 | It did not take long to fetch the horses round . |
| 14 | When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males . |
| 15 | It did not take long for forces from the south to march upon the rebels and throw them into abject retreat . |
| 16 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 17 | I did not live far from the school so it did not take long to get there . |
| 18 | It did not take long for Curtis to establish what had happened . |
| 19 | It did not take long for Gould to realise that it would have been better to have waited . |
| 20 | It did not take long for moral earnestness to clash with secular utility . |
| 21 | It did not take long , and afterwards she went round the house and saw that all the doors and windows were barred . |
| 22 | But , as he revealed later , it did not take long for him to realise that Paris was no more inspirational to him than Barnsley , so he returned to northern England and entered show business as a singer and pianist . |
| 23 | It does not take long , however , for Jane to become disillusioned . |
| 24 | But it does not take long to decide that the experiment is being conducted with skill , and that the pursuits have at least a little in common . |
| 25 | It does not take long to reach negligible proportions . |
| 26 | It does not take long to get used to plotting points on screen with the mouse , so creating simple straight line shapes soon becomes quite easy . |
| 27 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 28 | No lunch is provided and it does not take long to eat what little they bring — a bit of salad , some bread and maybe a hard-boiled egg . |
| 29 | It does not take long for the difficulties encountered in finding a buyer at the contingent price during earlier disposals to be forgotten . |