Example sentences of "it [verb] me [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 2 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 3 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 6 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 7 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 9 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |