Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 2 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 3 | It 's taken 3 years of planning , £16,000 in donations and bucketfuls of elbow grease to install the collection in the 12th century church and all for a parish of fewer than 700 people . |
| 4 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 5 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |