Example sentences of "it take [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 2 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 3 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 4 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 5 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 6 | It takes three years to become a qualified craftsman , said Mr Rowney , who trains wall builders at Botton village , near Danby , in the Esk Valley . |
| 7 | It took 13 years to bring Lashley to justice for the murder which he committed during 10 months of liberty while on parole from prison after a string of sex attacks in 1969 . |
| 8 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 9 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 10 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 11 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 12 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 13 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 14 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 15 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 16 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 17 | It took nineteen years to complete what was not only a remarkable feat of engineering but also an outstanding example of Francisco Franco 's single-minded pursuit of self-aggrandizement and immortality . |
| 18 | It took eighteen years before the game moved officially to the appropriately proletarian environment of Australia . |
| 19 | It took eighteen years to build , every piece of stone used in its construction coming from the quarries in Apedale ( the valley of the Norseman Appi ) . |
| 20 | but it took five years |
| 21 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It took two years , until 1 November , 1952 , to produce Teller 's first thermo-nuclear explosion . |
| 24 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 27 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
| 28 | It took two years . |
| 29 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |
| 30 | In one way this is surprising since the post-war record has been distinctly superior to the pre-war one : it took twenty-five years to double real wages in contrast to fifty years previously . |