Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 3 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 4 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 5 | Raving resembled a huge , religious ritual , and like other such rituals it gave many people an insight into a transcendental state . |
| 6 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 7 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 8 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 9 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |