Example sentences of "it took [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 2 | It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne |
| 3 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 4 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 5 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 6 | It took almost fifty years to deflect this falsification on to causes other than Newton 's theory . |
| 7 | It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 14 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 15 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |