Example sentences of "it [vb past] many [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 2 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 3 | It attracted many workers to Glasgow from all parts of Scotland . |
| 4 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 5 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
| 6 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 8 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 9 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 11 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 12 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 13 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 14 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 15 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 16 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 17 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 18 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 19 | It had many difficulties in controlling M3 , which proved to be an unreliable barometer . |
| 20 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 21 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |