Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or what have you , but erm , it do n't take very long |
| 2 | I ai n't really got much — just my clothes and that , so it do n't take long . |
| 3 | It do n't take long now does it ? |
| 4 | It do n't take long to learn our song . |
| 5 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 6 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 7 | It did not take long . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Still , it did not take long to sell , and as soon as people started to look over it , she told her family . |
| 10 | It did not take long to see the extension of the concept . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It did not take long for the police to trace Mrs Dyer to Caversham where she was arrested . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It did not take long for engineers to realise they could use more than one microphone , and ‘ balance ’ the music internally . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |
| 18 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 19 | It did not take long to fetch the horses round . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It did not take long for forces from the south to march upon the rebels and throw them into abject retreat . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I did not live far from the school so it did not take long to get there . |
| 24 | It did not take long for Curtis to establish what had happened . |
| 25 | It did not take long for Gould to realise that it would have been better to have waited . |
| 26 | It did not take long for moral earnestness to clash with secular utility . |
| 27 | It did not take long , and afterwards she went round the house and saw that all the doors and windows were barred . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 30 | Erm I hope it did n't take too long to read our statement . |