Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [num] year " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy .
4 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 .
5 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 ?
6 The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago .
7 The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago .
8 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 .
9 The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins .
14 I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money .
18 but it took five years
19 While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights .
20 While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago .
24 Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue .
25 Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago .
26 The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago .
27 ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago .
28 Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix .
29 The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago .
30 No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth .
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