Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed one hundred years that those poor people looked up at him — at Gabriel the fraud — and waited for a miracle . |
| 2 | Those were the days , when it started several hundred years ago , when sensationalism was not the habit of the press . |
| 3 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 4 | It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger . |
| 5 | ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . ) |
| 6 | It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely . |
| 7 | It took another sixty years to achieve this ; Forster 's Education Act was not passed till 1870 . |
| 8 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 9 | It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans . |
| 10 | Our first difference arose over the Biafran War , which began in July 1967 and in which , by the time it ended some three years later , there had been a civilian death toll alone in Biafra of over two million people . |