Example sentences of "it take many [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 5 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 6 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 7 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 8 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 9 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |