Example sentences of "[pron] takes [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains to be seen how a rhino , which takes many years to evolve and which has evolved with a horn , will learn to survive without one . |
| 2 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 3 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 4 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 5 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 6 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 7 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 8 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 9 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 10 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 11 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 12 | It takes three years to become a qualified craftsman , said Mr Rowney , who trains wall builders at Botton village , near Danby , in the Esk Valley . |
| 13 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 14 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |