Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 4 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 5 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |