It took a great deal of time.

这费了很多时间。

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It took a lot of balls to do that.

那么做需要很大的勇气。

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It took a lot of bottle to do that.

那样做需要很大的勇气。

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It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

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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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But secretly hidden, I think it's kind of been set up just so that I can meet her, and we met and it took a while.

但说句老实话，我觉得我们是被刻意安排好见面的，然后我们的确见到了对方，但真正产生感情仍花了一段时间。

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It took a worker smelling crude oil on the ground before it was noticed.

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And it took a long time for that to be told to the American people.

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It took a lot of effort after Andyman died, but WWCD stayed on the air.

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