Example sentences of "it take [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes approximately four years in the British climate for a fish to attain that length ( and equivalent weight of about 1lb 4oz ) . |
| 2 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 3 | The nearest star , called Proxima Centauri , is found to be about four light-years away ( the light from it takes about four years to reach Earth ) , or about twenty-three million million miles . |
| 4 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |
| 5 | It takes about 30 years from planting for a tree to grow enough bark to be harvested . |
| 6 | Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence . |
| 7 | ( Compare X , Y and Z in fig i ) — In some the progression is very rapid while in others it takes very many years and may only be triggered by an acute personal crisis such as retirement or when the children leave home ( the " empty nest syndrome " ) . |
| 8 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 9 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 10 | It took almost fifty years to deflect this falsification on to causes other than Newton 's theory . |
| 11 | It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat . |
| 12 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 13 | It took almost twenty years to launch a new attempt to embody in formal texts some of humanity 's yearnings for effective restrictions on war . |
| 14 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 15 | It took only three years for Totten to move St Johnstone through the pecking order to the Premier Division and the club were in the top half of the table when , on 14 December , the McDiarmid Park chairman , Geoff Brown , decided a change was necessary . |
| 16 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 17 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 18 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 19 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |