Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 2 | For Michael Kay , the present chairman of the RSPCA , it has meant 27 years in the field of animal welfare . |
| 3 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 4 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 5 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 6 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 7 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 8 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 9 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 10 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 11 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 12 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 13 | But this was unknown to Dean Miller , it having happened twenty-seven years before he was born . |
| 14 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 15 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 16 | It had taken 10 years for the states definitely to decide where they stood on the question of integration or association . |
| 17 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
| 18 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
| 19 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 20 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 21 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 22 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 23 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |
| 24 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 25 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 26 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |