Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] year for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 2 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 3 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 4 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 5 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 6 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 7 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |
| 8 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |