Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adj] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 7 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 8 | but it took five years |
| 9 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 10 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 11 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |