Example sentences of "[conj] it take [det] 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 | 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 . |
3 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
4 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
5 | 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 . |