Example sentences of "[conj] took [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 2 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 3 | Unveiled : the jigsaw that took ten years |
| 4 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 5 | The gallery was begun in 1865 , soon after the unification of northern Italy , and took thirteen years to complete . |
| 6 | The first tunnel was designed by James Brindley ( q.v. ) and took 11 years to complete , from 1766 to 1777 . |
| 7 | The hardwood forest trees in this picture were at least 100 feet tall and took 400 years to grow . |
| 8 | Work on the Chiltern Line , linking London with Banbury , Bicester and Aylesbury , began in 1903 and took 3 years to complete . |