Example sentences of "took [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 2 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 4 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 5 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 7 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 8 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 9 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 11 | Took them 26 years to win the title . |
| 12 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 13 | It took them several years to prepare the area . |
| 14 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 15 | I mean I mean obviously the it may be that erm there 's very little these days I 'm afraid which is an absolutely copper bottomed guarantee you know but if if if they were able to say well you know yes we do take people who 've got the exams you know we took somebody last year or whatever . |
| 16 | took you ten years . |
| 17 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 18 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 19 | It took him thirteen years and he covered over a hundred thousand miles . |
| 20 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 21 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 22 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 23 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 24 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 25 | It took him three years . |
| 26 | It took him three years before prices were increased adequately to meet the needs of the business . |
| 27 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 28 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 29 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 30 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |