Example sentences of "it [verb] take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 2 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 3 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 4 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 5 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 6 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 7 | It has taken many years for these professionals to gain recognition and acceptance . |
| 8 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 9 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 10 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 11 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 12 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 13 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 14 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 15 | It had taken 10 years for the states definitely to decide where they stood on the question of integration or association . |
| 16 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
| 17 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
| 18 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
| 19 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 20 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 21 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 22 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 23 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |