Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] years " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
2 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
3 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
4 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
5 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
6 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
7 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
8 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
9 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
10 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
11 | It took several years to acknowledge that all this higher searching was based on my father 's money . |
12 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
13 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
14 | Another role for town planning beckoned ; it took some years for regional economic planning practice to take coherent shape , but the gauntlet of the conceptual challenge had been thrown down . |