Example sentences of "it have taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 2 | It has taken Warren Ogden nearly 30 years to compile the information on these machines which began in the mid 1950s . |
| 3 | The fact is , it works and it has taken United to the top of the Second Division , unbeaten in nine League games . |
| 4 | Very little debate about how to manage it has taken place . |
| 5 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 6 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 7 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 8 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 10 | P.S. A rainforest tree can be felled with a chainsaw in less time than it has taken you to read this letter . |
| 11 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 12 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 13 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 14 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 15 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 16 | The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is . |
| 17 | It has taken more than 40 years , we are told , as well as improved autostradas , for the first ‘ Zimmern ’ signs to appear in Montepulciano . |
| 18 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It has taken the Tories ' current enthusiasm for copying Labour policies — and this week 's signal from the Bank of England that it favours a form of credit controls — to start to blur that image . |
| 21 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 22 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 23 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 24 | It has taken her just 24 months to learn the rules . |
| 25 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 26 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 27 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
| 28 | It is ironic that it has taken until the dawn of the 21st century to realise that the best methods of utilising — and hence preserving — our woodlands are those employed a millennium ago . |
| 29 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 30 | But it has taken £69 million at the US box office since it opened at Christmas — all of which will delight Great Ormond Street Hospital , to which J M Barrie gave the rights of Peter Pan . |