Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 32 | The £50,000 it raised last year will help to pay for a researcher at the Department of Cancer Studies at Birmingham University . |
| 33 | 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 ) . |
| 34 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 35 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 36 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 47 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 48 | It began this year when Dad made those wooden cut-out figures , the snowman and the presents . |
| 49 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 50 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
| 51 | It merged six years later with the Scottish Umpire to form Scottish Sport , which appeared twice weekly at 1d. and claimed a circulation of 43,000 . |
| 52 | In statistical terms by far the best predictor of what an authority will spend this year is what it spent last year ( Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 53 | The new Holiday Inn at King 's Cross , London , will also have a Landis & Gyr system , controlling energy , fire and security systems and elevators when it opens next year . |
| 54 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 55 | Drawing on a wide range of primary and published sources , it chronicles 200 years of British antics in imperial bedrooms . |
| 56 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 57 | We can all get a chuckle over that the fact that Microsoft is going to refuse to renew the cross-licence it has with IBM for Windows and NT after it expires next year . |
| 58 | ALA housing chairman Pete Challis said he would seek an assurance the Government will renew the Rough Sleeper 's initiative , the scheme to provide 15,000 hostel bed spaces , when it expires next year . |
| 59 | It seems this year 's surprise chart hit has prompted a renewed interest in the didgeridoo . |
| 60 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |