Example sentences of "[verb] take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 2 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 3 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 4 | But it must be remembered that the process of evolving acceptable accounting standards has taken many years . |
| 5 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 6 | It has taken many years for these professionals to gain recognition and acceptance . |
| 7 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 8 | Blue Planet has taken five years to complete and is made on the Imax ( largest screen ) format . |
| 9 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 10 | Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years , most attention going to the creation of women 's lavatories and space for tea urns . |
| 11 | Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years , most attention going to the creation of women 's lavatories and space for tea urns . |
| 12 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 13 | The whole thing has taken four years of heartache and worry . |
| 14 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 15 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 16 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 17 | I mean the furore about actually leasing trains has taken several years to develop erm And you just have to look at at the moment now and he does n't know if he 's sinking or swimming basically . |
| 18 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 19 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 20 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 21 | ‘ If nitrate does , indirectly , cause cancer , it will be the long-term average that matters and the effect of any increase in cancer rates would be expected to take many years to become apparent … |
| 22 | A reconstruction programme , calculated to cost at least US$10,000 million , was expected to take several years . |
| 23 | Work is expected to take several years . |
| 24 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit . |
| 25 | In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work . |
| 26 | Of course , as a scientist who 's planning an expedition that 's going to take 200 years to get underway , Charles has his critics within the Oxford establishment . |
| 27 | Yes it 's now going to take two years longer I think than was originally er contended , to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and Germany one 's thinking of in particular , wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons ? |
| 28 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |
| 29 | The tunnelling of Phase 1 of the project from the gorge site is scheduled to take three years to three and a half years to complete . |
| 30 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |