To spend a couple of hours there once in a while was taking it one step further, that's all.

Took me a while, but here I am now.

Took a while to find a safe place to park, but I found one.

Took a while, but I figured it out after about the third rest stop.

Took me a while to figure out where I'd seen that look before, but I finally did.

All the while, he concluded, "they were taking pictures of me."

It takes a while for this central drama to take shape - a little too long, actually.

Takes me a while to locate the character in a setting, is all.

She went back to bed, took a while to fall asleep again.

I only looked at a couple of them, disassembly takes a while.