It took a long time, but he succeeded.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

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

So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"It took us a long time to get here. It is going to take some time for us to work through this.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"Insurgencies last a long time." "But,as you look at how long it took to turn Iraq around, it was about 18 months.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

It took a long time to get the guys there.

他们花了很长时间打到那

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So I have n operations log n times, n log n there we go, n log n. Took us a long time to get there, but it's a nice algorithm to have.

所以我log，n遍的n次操作，就得到了,虽然花了不少时间得到了这个结论。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选