Example sentences of "took about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1930s recession took about 10 years to work through ; but have we now even recovered the position we wee in during 1979 ? |
| 2 | The test took about 10 minutes to complete and counting the dots on the photo required 10 to 20 minutes . |
| 3 | It 's it we we took about fifty or so jobs that that were over a hundred thousand pounds , and then we knocked off erm the BES jobs and and jobs which were outside party , jobs where we had n't actually done the design work . |
| 4 | The driver of the one car took about 45 minutes to cut free |
| 5 | And the factory where I work I should think we took about fourteen of the men at this factory . |
| 6 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |
| 7 | This took about six hours to record , the eventual programme being of 30 minutes duration . |
| 8 | And once the springs were cleared again , and all the junk removed , I 've , I did n't mention that it , it took about six months to get all the junk , prams and barbed wire and tins etcetera etcetera , removed , before you could actually start anything . |
| 9 | All this took about four minutes . |
| 10 | Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree . |
| 11 | took about four of them to do it normally , Paul |
| 12 | Now education has of that thirty nine million the Education Department benefited by about eighteen million , and we took , I think it was erm four million out yesterday , we will be back to a net gain of fourteen million on education and social services have benefited since eighty five by about to the tune of nine million and or eight point six million , and we took about four hundred thousand out of that yesterday . |
| 13 | But his first major prose work — The Allegory of Love — took about eight years to complete . |
| 14 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |
| 15 | Then I had some from Mid Wales , and they were slow in staring , because they took about twelve months to settle in there . |
| 16 | But that took about two years by the time , I purposely started smoking to keep it down . |
| 17 | took about two and a half , two hours did n't it ? |
| 18 | The painting took about 5 weeks , but 4 weeks of that was research because I wanted to get every rivet right . |
| 19 | Each took about five hundred hours of work . |
| 20 | Di Leonardo 's personal secretary had issued a statement shortly after midday , a masterpiece of prolixity that took about five minutes to say that Ruggiero Miletti had been found dead and that another statement would be issued in due course . |
| 21 | The evolution of V40 from V2 took about 100 test-tube transfer ‘ generations ’ ( of course , many actual RNA-replication generations go on between each test-tube transfer ) . |
| 22 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 23 | ‘ Every attempt on the route took about 20 minutes ’ , says Jibé . |
| 24 | We were n't lovers from the beginning — it took about 30 seconds . |
| 25 | His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it . |
| 26 | The town of Mardakert , in the north-eastern part of the enclave , came under attack and Azerbaijani forces took about 15 villages in the region . |
| 27 | The preparation and signing of the document took about half an hour . |
| 28 | That took about half an hour , and I could n't feel a thing from the waist down . |
| 29 | Only took about half his bottle . |
| 30 | K. R. There was one occasion when we took about ten in . |