Example sentences of "[pron] take many years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains to be seen how a rhino , which takes many years to evolve and which has evolved with a horn , will learn to survive without one . |
| 2 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 3 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 4 | Consequently they underinvest in long-term projects which take many years before they yield a positive return . |
| 5 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 6 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 7 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 8 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 9 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 10 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 11 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 12 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 13 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |