Example sentences of "took [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock took eight years to ditch the views of his mentor Aneurin Bevan , John Smith has taken a mere eight months to ditch those of Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 2 | This momentous shift took 300 years from church to factory , say , 1360 to 1660 . |
| 3 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |
| 4 | It was madness to begin with , the only trouble is , it took forty years for the government to discover it 's own craziness and to begin to dismantle it , we are now reaping the legacy of that , of , of the , the accumulated folly of forty years is now bursting upon our cities . |
| 5 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 6 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 7 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 8 | Another role for town planning beckoned ; it took some years for regional economic planning practice to take coherent shape , but the gauntlet of the conceptual challenge had been thrown down . |
| 9 | It took 2 years to put it in place but I 've had 26 birds on the place . |
| 10 | It took 2 years to get the money and membership needed to launch the campaign . |
| 11 | In spite of many miracles and wonders effected at his tomb , it took twenty-one years before the sceptical Bishop William of Orkney was persuaded to translate the bones of St Magnus into a shrine on 13 December 1137 . |
| 12 | The gallery was begun in 1865 , soon after the unification of northern Italy , and took thirteen years to complete . |
| 13 | If tests are successful , inventors Integrated Surgical Systems , which took six years to develop Robodoc , will apply for clinical trials throughout America . |
| 14 | Couples married in the 1930s took six years from the birth of their first child to the birth of their second , and almost ten years from the birth of their first to the birth of their third . |
| 15 | The book took 10 years to compile by a Durham University team . |
| 16 | ROCK band Queensryche took 10 years to work out how to become stars . |
| 17 | It took nineteen years to complete what was not only a remarkable feat of engineering but also an outstanding example of Francisco Franco 's single-minded pursuit of self-aggrandizement and immortality . |
| 18 | It took three years , and the man was backed every inch of the way by his union . |
| 19 | It took three years to build , starting in 1785 . |
| 20 | The SPS will probably never be attempted but its theoretical viability is suggested by the fact that NASA took three years and spent $16 million on assessing the concept . |
| 21 | Commenced in 1898 the line took three years to build and finally was opened in May 1901 . |
| 22 | But , the report took three years to publish because of what the unit calls ‘ political discussions ’ . |
| 23 | With Caroline Seebohm , Miss Campbell took three years to write the 160-page book , which is published in February by Arum Press . |
| 24 | It is hoped 200,000 Carinas will be made next year at the site , which took three years to complete . |
| 25 | It is hoped 200,000 Carinas will be made next year at the site , which took three years to complete . |
| 26 | His latest film , Les Amants Du Pont Neuf ( see left ) , an unrestrained and intensely romantic love story starring Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche , took three years to complete . |
| 27 | The scheme , which took three years to devise , is now used in decisions about staff promotion , and since its introduction the average ratings for staff members have improved . |
| 28 | This involved substantial investment to clear the sites , provide rail lines to move the coal , sink shafts ( which took three years , on average ) , provide housing , and recruit miners ( Waller , 1983 , p. 17ff . ) . |
| 29 | Union is the compelling debut album , that Toni took three years to write and record . |
| 30 | This is the vehicle that Honda took three years to create . |