Sentence examples for took three times from inspiring English sources

"It took three times as long as it should have.

The work took three times longer than expected and required a series of compromises.

Instead, he said, it took three times as long, with flames burning behind locked doors and illegal walls that firefighters had to tear down to reach the bodies.

The "Scream" franchise is still built around Ms. Campbell, and maybe it took three times for her to get it right.

(That project, at $400 billion in today's dollars, cost four times as much and took three times as long as planned).State and local governments account for most public investment (see chart).

There was a month between Contador being informed of his positive test by the UCI and it being made public, and his Federation then took three times the usual month-long period deliberating over whether he should be cleared.

"It took seven times," Ms. Healy said.

First, for single males enclosed with single virgin females, diploid males took four times longer to mate than haploid males.

Victrelis is taken three times a day, with a total of 12 capsules daily.

Chloroquine usually has to be taken three times over three days.

"It takes three times as long to do anything here as it does anywhere else".