Example sentences of "took at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took at least two hours before reluctantly passing it over . |
| 2 | On each occasion I took at least half an hour to get ready , chose my clothes carefully , brushed my teeth , put my earrings in , wore bright-red lipstick . |
| 3 | So how did Tony manage to gain the confidence of the dealers , ‘ It took at least two or three weeks before I took my camera out and that was probably one of the hardest things I did . |
| 4 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 5 | Yet , because of a prevailing conservatism among the sport 's administrators , most of these changes took at least twenty years to come about . |
| 6 | The polymers he tried all took at least three days to form an adequate surface layer . |
| 7 | Even in the 1780s travel was difficult and on foot or by horse — it took at least four days to get from Edinburgh to London . |
| 8 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 9 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 10 | The sensitivity of the initiative is underlined by the fact that it took at least five months for Unix Labs and Santa Cruz to agree on a basic specification drawn up by UK firm IXI Ltd and edited by Unix Labs . |
| 11 | Unix International spokesman Dave Sandel said he took at face value assurances that USL would honour its commitments to customers . |
| 12 | They would took at her . |
| 13 | Whatever the interpretation , the cumulative research and survey data since 1978 suggests an urgent need to took at the justifications , dynamics and effectiveness of grouping . |
| 14 | Up to 1985 he took at least one US Tour event a season , except for 1981 . |
| 15 | In each of his nine full seasons in English cricket he took at least 100 wickets , three times exceeding the 200 mark . |
| 16 | You both took at least ninety minutes for lunch . |
| 17 | Devising a replacement timetabling system for the original scheme invented by Mobbs for a full-time course in science took at least ten months of negotiation and debate . |
| 18 | This slightly depressing bout of bargaining — which had been brushed over so quickly in the Shah Jehan Nama — took at least a quarter of an hour . |
| 19 | So it took at least four men . |
| 20 | We decided to accelerate the measures already under way to improve efficiency and reduce costs , and this resulted in the exceptional charges we took at the half-year . |
| 21 | A check on the number of tablets returned at each visit showed that all patients took at least 70% of the tablets prescribed , and that the median ( interquartile range ) number of antacid tablets consumed per week was similar in both groups ( cisapride 2.2 ( 0.1–5.7 ) ; placebo 1.9 ( 0.3–3.6 ) : p=0.76 , Mann-Whitney U test ) . |
| 22 | I do n't know if I can answer that to be absolutely honest I I mean I really feel that erm that would be reading too much into the decision that that our members took at that time . |
| 23 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 24 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
| 25 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |
| 26 | These are what we took at the museum are n't they ? |
| 27 | Well I think began Gwendoline that the class took at once . |
| 28 | Pink took at very little boy not |
| 29 | Well that 's a point , speaking of photos can I have the ones you took at ? |