Sentence examples for needed several years from inspiring English sources

My examiners once needed several years of teaching experience, now I'll take a PGCE student.

Sauvage at least has the advantage of starting off with expertise that Maison Premiere needed several years to accumulate.

It also suggests one reason that, between the two phases, he needed several years of relative silence.

These reductions persisted up to three years after the drought ended, because the lakes and reservoirs that feed them needed several years of average rainfall to return to predrought levels.

However, zones affected by a thin ash layer were shown to recover over one year, whereas locations with more than 8 10 cm of ash needed several years to start recovering.

Collected in 2000 from Upper Jurassic rock layers in eastern Wyoming, the fossil's bones were so delicate that William Wahl, of the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, needed several years to prepare them.

It will need several years to tackle security and development and governance issues.

Kickers often need several years to land steady N.F.L. jobs; half of the 35-and-older kickers were cut early on.

Preventing the spread of AIDS has proved difficult and slow, as programs need several years before they begin to reduce the rate of transmission.

A vintage chart will advise, say, that the 1998 Bordeaux will need several years of bottle aging after they arrive here in 2001.

We still have a lot of problems (including a larger fiscal deficit than any core European country) and we need several years of solid growth to fix them.