Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [num] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 2 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 3 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 4 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 5 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 6 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 7 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 8 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 9 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 10 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |