Example sentences of "[pron] took [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Germany 's bishops were in exile when Bismarck , in 1879 , began to consider a restoration of relations with the Papacy , a process which took several years ( see also below , p. 220 ) . |
| 4 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 5 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 6 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 7 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 8 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 9 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 10 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 11 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 12 | It took several years to acknowledge that all this higher searching was based on my father 's money . |
| 13 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 14 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 15 | Another role for town planning beckoned ; it took some years for regional economic planning practice to take coherent shape , but the gauntlet of the conceptual challenge had been thrown down . |