Example sentences of "take i [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take me bleeding years to reach my goal |
| 2 | It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them . |
| 3 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 4 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 6 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 7 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 9 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 10 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 11 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can admit this , but I still want you , Jessamy . |
| 14 | It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can live without you , start to look forward to the future , and you 're not going to take that away from me . |
| 15 | This has taken me four years and I reckon the Atlantic 's the one to go for.I 'm sure it 's not that difficult . |
| 16 | Listen : it 's taken me two years to get this thing done . |
| 17 | It has taken me twelve years to be as sure as I am now , and it might take a few more to be absolutely sure . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 19 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 20 | It 's taken me 6 years . |
| 21 | It 's taken me 24 years to go solo . |
| 22 | It 's taken me twenty years to catch up . |
| 23 | It has taken me seven years to find the right school for my son . |
| 24 | So it has taken me 60 years to finish the book I began in 1933 . |
| 25 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |