Example sentences of "it [verb] many year " 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 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 5 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 6 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 7 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 8 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 9 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 10 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 11 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's many years since the gods sent me one to tend . ’ |
| 13 | It 's many years since the last train ran from here to Gloucester . |