Example sentences of "took two year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It took two years , until 1 November , 1952 , to produce Teller 's first thermo-nuclear explosion . |
| 3 | The final report , giving the regional overview , case studies , and comprehensive analysis of statistical information took two years to complete , twice as long as was expected , yet the problems of acceptability to the establishment were not over . |
| 4 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The 1000-page study took two years to prepare . |
| 7 | This , and the restoration of the celebrated gardens of both houses , took two years . |
| 8 | Publicity manager David Turner , said that Open Accounting took two years to develop because the Harrogate , Yorkshire company writes software from scratch for each new architecture . |
| 9 | BAS spent £9.4 million , £3.4 million more than planned to rebuild Halley , and the project took two years longer than expected . |
| 10 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 11 | The credit unions in Birkenhead took two years from the decision to start a union to opening the doors for business . |
| 12 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 13 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
| 14 | It took two years . |
| 15 | The judge in the case had ordered an investigation into why social services took two years to call in the police.Kim Barnes reports |
| 16 | The stunt took two years to perfect , and the team used a series of remote cameras to film every breath-taking second . |
| 17 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |