Example sentences of "it [vb -s] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends months of financial worry for Alan Govier , who worked for a printing firm for forty-nine years . |
| 2 | often , it takes months of phone calls before you have completed your ‘ hit list ’ , and I would suggest that whoever takes on this job should have a very carefree and optimistic attitude . |
| 3 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 4 | Contrary to European perceptions , it takes months rather than centuries ( as European emigrants to the United States demonstrated ) . |
| 5 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll put in a request for them to check out Albany ’ George grumbled , ‘ but it takes months to get them to do your office never mind your home . |
| 7 | It takes months of painstaking work to grow the perfect orchid , and the potential prizewinners have to be kept cool and dark to stop them fading . |
| 8 | It takes months for inmates to be that open , back on A wing they find it hard to understand . |
| 9 | ‘ It takes months of practice to master the art . ’ |
| 10 | It follows months of investigation into his business affairs after the death of his father Robert Maxwell . |