Example sentences of "it [verb] four year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 2 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 3 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 8 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 9 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 10 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 11 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |