Example sentences of "take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Until an alleged audit failure has been properly investigated , which usually takes some years , the Institute knows no better than anybody else whether there really has been any negligence or wrongdoing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | NEVER TOO LATE TO STOP SMOKING The average cigarette shortens life by seven minutes , and smoking takes six years off the average life . |
| 5 | She had known the risks that the average cigarette shortens life by seven minutes , and smoking takes six years off the average life . |
| 6 | Even when the decay is spreading , it typically takes six years to travel through the tooth enamel into the softer dentin , where it becomes a threat to the nerves in the root canal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Right well it may be of course you see on the other hand the accountancy takes three years . |
| 11 | Naturally , if the system takes three years to implement , substantial change is inevitable ! |
| 12 | The honours programme lasts four years while the ordinary degree takes three years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 15 | One of the problems of studying nitrate pollution is that the water that replenishes aquifers — particularly the Chalk — typically takes many years to travel from the soil to the water table . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 19 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 20 | On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible . |
| 21 | The whole cycle , from north to south to north , takes 18.61 years . |
| 22 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 23 | No doubt intelligent 20-year-olds have become successful foreign exchange dealers within a year , but to train a graduate-level engineer takes five years or more . |
| 24 | The skill that takes five years to learn |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Evian water takes 15 years to filter down from Alpine snows to the town spring . |
| 28 | Studying and training usually takes two years . |
| 29 | Whether this attainment takes two years to acquire depends on what else is to be covered in Science , not its own intrinsic difficulty or depth . |
| 30 | In recovery the grief reaction takes two years to work through and the various components of grief have to be addressed and processed . |