Example sentences of "it take many [noun] [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 It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal .
4 Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores .
5 Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital .
6 It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling .
7 It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union .
8 It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday .
9 Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness .
10 In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital .
11 But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense .
12 It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds .
13 It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians .
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