Example sentences of "[coord] take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 2 | The gallery was begun in 1865 , soon after the unification of northern Italy , and took thirteen years to complete . |
| 3 | The first tunnel was designed by James Brindley ( q.v. ) and took 11 years to complete , from 1766 to 1777 . |
| 4 | The hardwood forest trees in this picture were at least 100 feet tall and took 400 years to grow . |
| 5 | Work on the Chiltern Line , linking London with Banbury , Bicester and Aylesbury , began in 1903 and took 3 years to complete . |
| 6 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield pointed out , the scheme is a major one , expected to cost about £60 million and to take four years to construct . |
| 7 | The scheme , expected to cost US$25,000 million and to take 25 years to complete , aimed to tap underground water resources 2,000 km away in south-eastern Libya to supply the more populous coastal regions . |
| 8 | Replacement of wet by dry cooling towers would cost £10 billion and take 10 years — and dry systems depend on refrigeration using ozone-damaging CFC 's . |
| 9 | There are plans to bring in a similar scheme in Oxford — it 's going to cost eighteen million pounds and take five years . |
| 10 | If the A66(M) junction were redesigned it would cost several million pounds and take several years to complete , he said . |
| 11 | If the A66(M) junction were redesigned it would cost several million pounds and take several years to complete , he said . |