Example sentences of "it take [pron] [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 3 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 6 | It took them several years to prepare the area . |
| 7 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 8 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 9 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 10 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 11 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 12 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 13 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 14 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |
| 15 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |