Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can remember it being done 15 years ago at Hodder & Stoughton . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , it 's taken 4 years and £600 million to create to the new Peugeot 605 range . |
| 3 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 4 | It 's taken five years and sixty thousand pounds to get this far … half way . |
| 5 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 6 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 7 | It 's taken 3 years of planning , £16,000 in donations and bucketfuls of elbow grease to install the collection in the 12th century church and all for a parish of fewer than 700 people . |
| 8 | It 's taken 3 years to build . |
| 9 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 10 | It 's taken ten years to convert the whole farm and today it offers a vision of what organic farms of the future could look like . |
| 11 | He confesses he found the book 's success unreal and it 's taken several years to find level ground again . |
| 12 | It 's taken 114 years to build up Blackwells from a one-room shop to today 's multi-million pound business . |
| 13 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 14 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 15 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 16 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 17 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 18 | Given the go-ahead in 1793 , it was completed 30 years later . |
| 19 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 20 | They divided the territory in two , though it was reunited thirty years later . |
| 21 | It was written four years ago by Neil , Lea , John and Charlie Heather and is based on their teenage experiences . |
| 22 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 23 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 24 | It was revealed many years later that Sid had not actually bought the winning ticket but had found it mysteriously floating in his half-time Bovril . |
| 25 | It was to take eight years to produce the entire series . |
| 26 | It was to take several years and unexpected pressures before general progress in this direction was achieved , but it is important to remember that there were views being canvassed in the CNAA and more widely that pointed towards a possible further ‘ collective resolution ’ . |
| 27 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 28 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 29 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 30 | In fact it was coined seven years before Darwin published his theory , by Herbert Spencer . |