Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 3 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 4 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 5 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 6 | However , if we take eleven years to the date of writing ( 1978–89 at Table 5.3 ) , we find that , while job losses were concentrated in manufacturing , they were again widely spread within it . |
| 7 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 8 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 9 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 12 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 13 | but it took five years |
| 14 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 15 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 16 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 17 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |