Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] year [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took 13 years to bring Lashley to justice for the murder which he committed during 10 months of liberty while on parole from prison after a string of sex attacks in 1969 . |
| 2 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 3 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 4 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 5 | It took nineteen years to complete what was not only a remarkable feat of engineering but also an outstanding example of Francisco Franco 's single-minded pursuit of self-aggrandizement and immortality . |
| 6 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 7 | It took eighteen years to build , every piece of stone used in its construction coming from the quarries in Apedale ( the valley of the Norseman Appi ) . |
| 8 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |
| 9 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 10 | In one way this is surprising since the post-war record has been distinctly superior to the pre-war one : it took twenty-five years to double real wages in contrast to fifty years previously . |
| 11 | IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground . |
| 12 | It took 20 years to build . |
| 13 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 14 | It took three years to build , starting in 1785 . |
| 15 | It took several years to acknowledge that all this higher searching was based on my father 's money . |
| 16 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 17 | It took 2 years to put it in place but I 've had 26 birds on the place . |
| 18 | It took 2 years to get the money and membership needed to launch the campaign . |
| 19 | It took seven years to complete , but then that 's the secret behind the success story of this home where time and careful work have combined to create an elegant and colourful base for this busy family lifestyle . |
| 20 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |