Sentence examples for took to construct from inspiring English sources

Citizens named it the Babylon tower of Nizhny because of the extremely long time it took to construct.

There's a bit of that here: the marvel is in seeing the nature of the activity that it took to construct these buildings.

They are the models for the logo of the project, symbols of the Viking-sized effort it took to construct the link.

Sometimes when you consider the hours it took to construct a single song, you just want to whistle at the dedication, and then move on.

Backed by the musical ingenuity it took to construct all those hooks, funk vamps and choruses -- and to push people onto the dance floor -- the songs still confessed to heartache, frustration and confusion.

If you look at the kinds of minuscule images Galileo studied, and see the patient drawings he made of Saturn's rings or the Moon's mountains, you understand just how extraordinary a mind it took to construct such a cosmic order out of such limited material.

There are several novel aspects to the approach we took to constructing a rhesus macaque genome as compared to previous efforts.

This forced me to live with my disgust about something for longer than it takes to construct a tweet.

Initially Mr. Squyres usually works alone, "mining the richest veins," by bringing out the best in each frame and choosing his favorite takes to construct individual scenes.

Difficult though it may be to drag one's attention to matters Irish, anyone interested in finding out what it takes to construct peace among seemingly irreconcilable enemies should read this book.

"You mean," Watanabe says, "that in the time it takes to construct a five-year plan one consultancy deep, we'll be able to develop a ten-year plan two levels down?" DiCaprio looks into the middle distance.