Example sentences of "it [verb] taken a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 2 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 3 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 4 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 5 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 7 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 8 | In particular , it has taken a strong line against price fixing ( e.g. dyestuffs , glass containers ) and market sharing or quantity agreements ( e.g. cement ) to the extent that such practices are now unlikely ever to be granted an exemption . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , it has taken a major tragedy to focus the minds of hauliers and their professional advisers sharply on these problem areas . |
| 10 | It has taken a closer look at what it pays and what it gets out of its Brussels El Dorado , and it is not happy . |
| 11 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 12 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 13 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 14 | 261 Squadron was indeed tired — it had taken a terrible beating from Müncheberg and his men . |
| 15 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 16 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 17 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |
| 18 | Nor was Lotus a negligible factor : it had taken a severe dip in I975 , but anyone knowing Chapman had to know that Lotus declines were generally followed by Lotus ascensions ; with Andretti and Peterson driving against him , Hunt was starting the season in a star-studded field . |
| 19 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 20 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |