It took dozens of firefighters and around 30 fire engines more than five hours to control the blaze.

It took me hours and hours a day to build my skills up to the next level.

AK It took just about probably three to four hours to get it to train.

It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

It s a pity it took so long.

Yet it took three months to cap the Macondo well.

It took some time for the flag to gain acceptance among the people.

It took on financial independence from UCCF in 1996.

It took a further 150 years for Australian graziers to develop some of his concepts.

It took only 10 seconds for me to find !! The image looks very similar to me, don't they?

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

Jerome Horsey wrote that it took more than a year to clear away all the bodies.

It took me 100 miles to figure out that, in my heart, in me, I had become a prisoner.

It took more than four decades for the PLO to recognize Israel.

It took one year to obtain data via a benchmarking study from the agencies.

We did that. It took about altogether just two hours, pretty much, to create the simulation.

It took the Indian government some time to formulate an answer to Musharraf s request for a visit.

We should defeat them, however long it takes, because otherwise they will not disappear.

It took the UN 14 months to appoint a chief prosecutor.

Israel and Iceland were next, in 1955, followed by Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Argentina, the UK, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, the US, France, Japan, and Italy.

But after four months apart, it was taking too long. So she decided she would make the trip as well.

It took thirty six hours (on a 6 day span) to be read by Atatürk.

It took them four days to reach İnönü due to delaying action of the Turkish front.

It took less than five hours for Lumu to raise its initial goal of 20,000 dollars and the campaign still has a few days to go, until 12 July.

It took me five fake tries because they were just going. To slow them down was literally impossible.

At a minimum, it took 150 years for IR 1 to have its full range of effects.

It took him years to research it, edit the completed portions, and decide how to treat the unfinished part.

The setback in economic and social progress points to the vulnerability of small States to natural disasters and the way in which several decades of progress can be wiped out in a matter of hours.

It took decades to become real, and there are still countries that have a long way to go.

Here I am with my mama, who is a true angel in my life. It took me eight years to completely recover.

As a result, unemployed workers had to find jobs in new industries, which took more time and training.

It took nearly a century for the natives to learn the sport, but when they did, they took to it like snakes to their charmers.

One of them, Captain Manuel Ávalos Prado, took command over the Chilean military aviation school that was officially instated 11 February 1913, and remained in command until 1915.

Eastern Europe s transformation after 1989 took a lot longer and was much more costly than originally envisaged.

But it took the Communists two more years to realize that they could not introduce economic reform without Solidarity s assent.

It took a good deal of time to learn what we all now take to be the lessons of the interwar Great Depression.

It took the government four days to sort out this matter finally, signalling an end to the four day long peaceful sit ins.

Initially, boots and tobacco pouches were the primary use for zippers it took another twenty years before they caught on in the fashion industry.

But I it took me about it took me about, I'd say, six months to finally figure out all the little things.

It took several weeks for the Iranian armed forces to evacuate Iraqi territory to honor pre war international borders between the two nations (see 1975 Algiers Agreement).

It took him more than 30 years to complete the work, and the eight volume atlas was published from 1982 to 1988.

For us at the World Bank, it has taken some time to recognize that the issues of post conflict situations are the same as those of non post conflict situations.

Instead, it took three weeks to grant the ECB only partial authorization to act, causing speculation to take hold and spread to Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian debt, thereby jeopardizing the euro s survival.

It took three days to dictate it into the general s Dictaphone.

Repairs took often a long time, and the State Aircraft Factory was burdened with restoration repair of Soviet war booty planes, foreign aircraft with many hours of flight time, and the development of indigenous Finnish fighter types.