Sentence examples for it previously took from inspiring English sources

It previously took more than an hour for an employee to compete such a task alone, he said.

It previously took years of processing time just to sift through these massive volumes of data, but now it can be done in hours.

When asked about concerns that one person was doing the job it previously took four people to do, he said, "Maybe what they should be looking at is the efficiency of the workers who used to be there".

Google rolled out real-time search technology last month, to offer searchers access to brand-new blog posts and news items far faster than the five to 15 minutes it previously took Google's Web crawlers to discover newly created items.

While it previously took less than 7 years for mechanical heart valves to develop from the first commercially available ball-in-cage valve to the tilting pyrolytic-carbon disc valve, and another 10 years to arrive at the all-carbon bi-leaflet design, only small incremental improvements have been achieved since 1977.

It previously took an $800,000 seed investment led by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten.

"I feed him three times a day, I do it myself". Dion previously took a two-year hiatus from 2000 to 2002 to help care for her husband, now 73, when he was initially diagnosed with throat cancer.

By John Cassidy In his push to reform Merrill, O'Neal exposed it to bigger risks than it had previously taken.

It highlighted SolarAid's market successes in trying to sell solar lamps to residents of Africa, shortcomings with various approaches it had previously taken and its ambitions for the future.

The typewriter took off in the eighteen-eighties, making it possible to create documents in a fraction of the time it had previously taken, and that was followed closely by the advent of carbon paper, which meant that a typist could create ten copies of that document simultaneously.

It had previously taken $20 million in writeoffs on Hathaway, and the next year it took another $10 million; the line did only $38 million in revenues in its last full year.