Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 2 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 3 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 4 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 5 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 6 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 7 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The paper which , unlike Haycocks I and II , was not considered by the main ACSTT Committee because it arrived too late before it concluded its five year term , was circulated by the DES to interested organizations for discussion and comment and a large number of responses was received . |
| 10 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |