Example sentences of "it had take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken 10 years for the states definitely to decide where they stood on the question of integration or association . |
| 2 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
| 3 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
| 4 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
| 5 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 6 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 7 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 8 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 9 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |