Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [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 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 7 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 8 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 9 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 10 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 11 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 17 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 18 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 19 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 20 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 21 | but it took five years |
| 22 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 23 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 24 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 25 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 26 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 27 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 28 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 29 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 30 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |