Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 3 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 4 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 5 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 6 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 7 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 8 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 9 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 10 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 11 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 12 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 13 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 14 | Another role for town planning beckoned ; it took some years for regional economic planning practice to take coherent shape , but the gauntlet of the conceptual challenge had been thrown down . |
| 15 | After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) . |
| 16 | Much of America 's apparent lead in intelligence technology and the vast sums it spends each year on these organisations has been negated by the large number of spies and traitors continually found within them . |