Example sentences of "it [verb] many year for " 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 Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness .
4 In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital .
5 But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense .
6 It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds .
7 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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