Example sentences of "took [pron] [adj] years " 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 | took you ten years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 18 | It took him thirteen years and he covered over a hundred thousand miles . |
| 19 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 20 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 21 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took him three years . |
| 25 | It took him three years before prices were increased adequately to meet the needs of the business . |
| 26 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Habituating a community of chimpanzees — gaining their acceptance as we followed their daily movements through the forest , and learning to recognise the animals as individuals — took us five years . |