Example sentences of "it [verb] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formal and repetitive in nature , it played year after year within a specifically limited time and place . |
| 2 | It seems hardly credible , but it happens year after year even after reminders are posted . |
| 3 | ‘ They said it would be as soon as possible — but it takes years for some people . |
| 4 | I suppose it takes years for two cultures to achieve perfect harmony . |
| 5 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 6 | Simple laboratory tests were able to show the acutely toxic effects of large doses of organochlorines , but it took years for high concentrations to accumulate in belugas that had consumed large quantities of lightly-contaminated food . |
| 7 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 8 | It follows years of wrangling over a controversial by-pass . |