The president took the decision to invade elbonia. It took me all of ten minutes to find out. I took my master's degree in the university of somewhere.
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As an example assume a monkey is in a well, and someone is trying to say they would have taken the money out. In recent years, i seem to. I have a little confusion on understanding the sentence:
I would say that in is more suitable to mention the particular subject (a degree in maths, for instance) than to indicate the place, but i.
Bob was fired because he took the decision to outsource the call centre to mars. Is there an idiomatic way to say that it took a lot of time and effort for someone to do something? I remember my high school teacher explicitly saying that it took me a long time to do x was the correct form and i took a long time to do x was not. You ask someone a question to which they are reluctant to give an.
Took 、spent 、cost 、 paid的原形分别是take，spend，cost，pay。 下面小布老师这给大家讲讲它们的区别， take通常用于表示花费时间或精力；spend主要表示花费金钱、时间或精. What is the difference between took and taken? Why couldn't it be i took all of ten minutes to find out? (180 000 google hits for took me + hours doing) however, it does sound rather.
