Example sentences of "it [vb past] many year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 2 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 3 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 4 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 5 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 6 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |