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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'took long time' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to indicate that something happened slowly and over an extended period of time, whether in the past or present. For example: "It took a long time for the company to get the paperwork approved."
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At first, the mixture was used as-is, both barium and lanthanum together, but this led to unpleasant radioactive contamination that took long time to disappear, due to the half-life of barium-140, which is 12.5 days.
Compared to complete media, glioma cells took long time to repair the wounds in conditioned media.
Interestingly, in humans a complete appreciation of the symbolic nature of tokens took long time to be achieved [32].
Considering the severe joint lesions it took long time before the horse-owners noticed the lameness.
Recovering of this pool took long time (growth delay phase Figure 1B) and led, beside other mechanisms, in the end to resistance.
Because different hospitals were using different information systems and inputting different data with various formats, it took long time to agree which variables and their data format should be collected.
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It takes long time to change.
However, it usually takes long time to encode.
computationally intensive: the permutation step takes long time; unstable: some null density estimates have negative values.
It took a long time.
This took a long time.
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