It took time until the political situation had normalized.

政治局势过了很长时间才恢复正常。

《牛津词典》

Love was a magnificent building I built on the foundation of friendship. It took time to blossom.

我的爱情是在友谊这块地基上建起的高楼大厦。它经过了旷日持久的培养才得以开花。

youdao

It took time, but I've come up with such an association for all [75] symbols.

这会花费时间，但是我已经用这种方法联系了【75】种字符。

youdao

That is the amount of time it took Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal to capture a historic image on film.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

This way of teaching did not perhaps quite so much for a variety of reasons permeate public school literature teaching, but it was simply, as a result of Understanding Poetry, the way to go. It took time.

尽管这种教学方法可能并没有大范围被应用于,公立学校的文学专业，但是它的确符合教育的发展趋向，这也还得归功于《诗歌鉴赏》，它确实需要更多时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He needed things to be perfect, and it took time to figure out what perfect was.

NEWYORKER: The Tweaker

It took time for them to appreciate their daughter's focus and growing independence, he says.

BBC: How football is changing lives of Indian slum girls

When finally confronted by law enforcement, it took time and pressure for both women to admit their true identities.

BBC: Magazine