Example sentences of "taken a considerable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colbeck died in Catford 18 October 1930 , his exertions in the Antarctic having taken a considerable toll . |
| 2 | She had taken a considerable amount of trouble over her appearance , she realized now , waiting for him to open the door . |
| 3 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 4 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 5 | We have taken a considerable number of far-reaching measures in association with the Confederation of British Industry to encourage precisely that course . |
| 6 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 7 | It it 's a part of the county council I 've always taken a considerable interest in , and I support them in all their efforts . |
| 8 | Gaining entrance to the large building had , also , taken a considerable amount of time and effort . |
| 9 | I 've already taken a considerable risk by telling you this much . |
| 10 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |