Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] many year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 2 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 5 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 6 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 7 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 8 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 9 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 10 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |