Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adj] years " 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 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
4 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
7 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
15 | but it took five years |
16 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
17 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
18 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
22 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
23 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
24 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
25 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
26 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
27 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
28 | It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office . |
29 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
30 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |