Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 7 | but it took five years |
| 8 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |