Example sentences of "took [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This trick took hours of practice , up and down the landing at the hostel while the other girls looked at her as if she had taken leave of her senses . |
| 2 | Eventually , I managed to coax a strained fart from the horn , but it took hours of practice . |
| 3 | The seventy-two-page catalogue took months of planning and discussion before its format was agreed and the final version appeared in five languages . |
| 4 | We should remember Burke 's famous warning that rage and frenzy can tear down in an hour what it took centuries of prudence to build . |
| 5 | The horses took clumps of gorse and two stone walls in their stride ; they ripped through a copse . |
| 6 | Increasingly underwriters took blocks of stock which they moved on to clients . |
| 7 | The middle classes were split between the northern industrial element , which tolerated professionalism and took directorships of Football League and Rugby League clubs , and the bankers , brokers , doctors , lawyers , civil servants , and schoolmasters who formed the bulk of the amateur establishment in southern England . |
| 8 | The work involved in writing this summation must have been back-breaking , and certainly took years of research . |
| 9 | They took rates of pay , hours and levels of pay , NALGO locally negotiated job-descriptions and their own personal needs into consideration . |
| 10 | So they took bits of Green away then ? |
| 11 | She took bits of chicken to bed with her and fell asleep while still chewing . |
| 12 | We took issues of race and sexuality to the Black and gay communities , again and again , occasionally with some success . |