It didn’t long take for suspicions

[GoodTaste]

The position of "long" appears to be a bit odd to me and it sounds not natural either.

The normal order is "It didn’t take long for suspicions..."

Does the phrase "It didn’t long take for suspicions" sound natural to you?

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Shi told Science her lab was thrust into the pandemic on 30 December 2019, the day her team first received patient samples. “Subsequently, we rapidly conducted research in parallel with other domestic institutions, and quickly identified the pathogen,” she wrote.


It didn’t long take for suspicions and rumors to arise. They spread on China’s social media sites and then in the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail and The Washington Times in the United States. On 2 February, Shi posted a note on her own social media site that said SARS-CoV-2 was “nature punishing the uncivilized habits and customs of humans,” and she was willing to “bet my life that [the outbreak] has nothing to do with the lab.”

Source: Science
[h=1]Trump ‘owes us an apology.’ Chinese scientist at the center of COVID-19 origin theories speaks out[/h] By Jon Cohen Jul. 24, 2020

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...st-center-covid-19-origin-theories-speaks-out

 

[GoesStation]

The words somehow got reversed. Your version is what the author intended.

 

[Tarheel]

It didn't take long for suspicions and rumors to arise.

That is perfectly natural. It means that not much time passed before suspicions and rumors cropped up.

 

[emsr2d2]

It didn't take long for suspicions and rumors to arise.

That is perfectly natural. It means that not much time passed before suspicions and rumors cropped up.

And if that's what the original had said, GoodTaste wouldn't have needed to post. ;-)