Example sentences of "it take [det] 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 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 5 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 6 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 7 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 8 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 9 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 10 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 11 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 12 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 13 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 14 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 15 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It took several years to acknowledge that all this higher searching was based on my father 's money . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |