Example sentences of "it took two year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 2 | It took two years , until 1 November , 1952 , to produce Teller 's first thermo-nuclear explosion . |
| 3 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 4 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 5 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 6 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
| 7 | It took two years . |
| 8 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |