Example sentences of "took [det] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 Well I 've took that , I took that some years ago but I 've never seen it on show you know ?
2 In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow .
3 It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger .
4 It took another sixty years to achieve this ; Forster 's Education Act was not passed till 1870 .
5 It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely .
6 ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . )
7 And since Cambridge University of 1924 was hardly likely to breed recruits for the Labour Party — that took another three years — the young men and women of the university could not do much but move , or move further , towards the Conservative side .
8 Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist .
9 England training took another twenty years to get organized .
10 It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans .
11 It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man .
12 This picture of antislavery support is at an early stage of a shift towards the objective of emancipation ; the completion of the transition took several more years even for abolitionist leaders .
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