Sentence examples for it took members from inspiring English sources

At the time of the framing, it took members of Congress many days or even weeks to travel to the capital (then Philadelphia) to attend congressional sessions.

While I would stress that US toy safety legislation on testing requirements and standards is weaker than the European Union's, and their problems with defective toys were greater, nonetheless the recalls for the same product occurred in July in the US and it took Member States until September to take action to withdraw defective toy products from the market in the EU.

It takes members of the next generation to reimagine the music of their grandfathers and to transform it into a new sound.

But it might take members of Congress longer to get it together than the average person who watches the Today show.

It may take members of our parents' generation (and our own) a long time to get over thinking of hospitals as refuges of safety and operating rooms as harbingers of better days ahead.

A separate design competition for a memorial will be held later this year, and in preparation for it Contini has taken members of her staff and victims' families on tours of memorials around the country, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and the memorial to the Oklahoma City bombing.

"It took three members of staff to find a change of address form," she says.

Though it took some members of the country rather a long time to realise that's what they had been taken for.

Orfeo is the only announced production to suffer, and it was chosen because taking members of the orchestra and chorus out of London "is expensive", the spokeswoman said.

It took a member of the audience to raise the subject of disabilities.

And it took a Member of Parliament named William Wilberforce -- it took him 20 years to break it, but he finally did.