It took a long time to wash the mud out of his hair.

花了很长时间才把泥从他头发上洗掉。

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It took her a long time to get ready for church.

她花了很长时间才准备好去教堂。

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They took a long time to mend the roof.

他们花了好长时间修缮房顶。

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

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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。

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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。

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Garrett Riekhof, a Higginsville farmer and 2003 Missouri graduate who took the class a decade ago, said the course marked the first time he took a hard look at the business side of his family's operation.

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However, Mr Obama and Ms Gillard, a former education minister, also took time to visit a Washington area school where they took questions from history students.

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In L.A. on a 48-hour break from shooting season four of Jersey Shore in Florence, Italy, Salsano, who goes by S.A., took time out from a press junket for Nail Files, her newest show, which premieres June 21st on TV Guide Network, to talk to me Jersey Girl to Jersey Girl.

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