Example sentences of "it take [adj] years " 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 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 4 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 5 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 6 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 7 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 8 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 9 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 10 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 11 | It takes three years to become a qualified craftsman , said Mr Rowney , who trains wall builders at Botton village , near Danby , in the Esk Valley . |
| 12 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 13 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 14 | It took 13 years to bring Lashley to justice for the murder which he committed during 10 months of liberty while on parole from prison after a string of sex attacks in 1969 . |
| 15 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 16 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 17 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 18 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 19 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 20 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 21 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 22 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 23 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 24 | It took nineteen years to complete what was not only a remarkable feat of engineering but also an outstanding example of Francisco Franco 's single-minded pursuit of self-aggrandizement and immortality . |
| 25 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 26 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 27 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 28 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 29 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 30 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |