Sentence examples for took ages for from inspiring English sources

It took ages for "my fee" to snake its way through the crowd, during which I genially fingerpicked A minor on the guitar.

That's what happened in 1998-1999, when it was already obvious that too much capital was chasing the dotcom dream, and in 2007-08, when it took ages for the penny to drop that the banks were rotten.

But back then, it took ages for the bed to arrive, she waited and waited and then went to see the cabinet-maker and told him he must hurry up because she would die before he finished it – and that she would haunt him if he didn't do it quickly.

It took ages for specialty data scientists to find any trends, and growth happened slowly.

It took ages for Igor to collect the shells for these shoes, and tube after tube of superglue to make them sturdy, but they still dissolved the third time he waded into the water.

It took ages for the touchscreen to move from average consumer product to music equipment, so its nice to see the controllerism nerds getting an early nod from this development.

"It's just taking ages for them to cut the bush back," one onlooker told reporters.

If we lost our hemlock canopy, it would take ages for that canopy to recover, if at all.

"I don't think Japan's birthrate will increase – it will take ages for that to happen.

Walkers, it seems, don't realise that it takes ages for a banana skin to degrade: two years, in fact.

It may take ages for a Japanese garden to come to maturity, to say nothing of the gardener.