Example sentences of "how [adv] it took the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 2 | That 's how long it took the 18-year-old to score with his first touch on his Roker Park debut . |
| 3 | How long it took the teacher to become familiar with the control of the program and to consider how to use it with his pupils . |
| 4 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 5 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |