Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 2 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
| 3 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 4 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 5 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |