I took five years of voice lessons.
我上过5年的声乐课。
They took five years to grow their roots.
它花了5年时间来长根。
The Basel 2 accords took five years to negotiate.
巴塞尔2协议花费5年谈判。
It took five years to drill down to bedrock.
耗时五年才钻到了基岩。
The whole project took five years to complete.
该项目总耗时五年完成。
The ambitious study took five years to complete.
这个宏大的研究需要5年才能完成。
It took five years to build and, after opening in 2008, doubles as a movie set.
工程历时5年，2008年竣工后也成为了影视基地。
But actually identifying the protein was a laborious process that took five years.
但是，实际上鉴别这些蛋白是一个花了五年时间的辛勤过程。
If I took five years to save for 2-bedroom downpayment, I’d need to save $1600 a month.
如果我花5年时间分期购买2居室的住宅，我需要每月存1600美元。
Fifty-seven percent graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in four years. Thirty-nine percent took five years.
57%的毕业生花费四年的时间获得学士学位，39%的毕业生花费五年的时间。
Yet it took five years before the Dreyfusards secured a second military trial, at which the captain was again found guilty, this time after the top brass forged evidence against him.
然而，德雷福斯一案历经五年才获得第二次军事审判机会，这次，在高级军官出示的伪证下，德雷福斯上尉再次被判有罪。
In 2002 it took five years to develop the genomic sequence of a polio virus. Three years later it took a week for a team the same size to do the same on a virus of similar length.
2002年人们完成了五年前开始的脊髓灰质炎病毒的基因组全序列的测定，三年后同样规模的一个团队只花了一周的时间做了一个相似长度的基因组测序。
The event was the beginning of what promises to be a flashy and expensive campaign by Microsoft to promote an operating system that took five years and six billion dollars to ready for the world.
这是微软公司承诺的为维斯卡视窗操作系统所作的一次精彩和昂贵的造势活动。 各个版本的维斯卡视窗系统的开发共耗时5年，耗费60亿美元。
I enjoyed experimenting with colours – it took me back to being five years old.
我喜欢尝试各种颜色–这使我回忆起5岁时的情景。
It took a network of volunteers nearly five years to do so.
而网络志愿者用了近五年时间才得以完成。
It took five long years for Nowitzki to return to the stage of his failures, to prove that he had heard the criticism and taken it to heart.
五年之后，诺维茨基重返当初失败的舞台，用实际行动证明了自己认真听取了那些批评的意见。
It took the typical grad student four to five years to get a Ph.D. I was hardly the program's resident genius.
一般的学生大约要用四到五年才能完成。我毋庸置疑成了这个项目的天才。
Five years ago, it took me about 30 minutes to drive from home to office.
五年前，我从家里开车到办公室花30分钟。
Almost all took the drug for more than five years, most for a pre-osteoporosis condition called osteopenia, she said.
她说，几乎所有病例都服用该类药物超过五年，大多数人是因为骨量减少而引起的骨质疏松症而开始服药的。
It TOOK Johan Palmstruch, a flawed genius as irritating as he was enchanting, five years to fulfil his dream of a freely circulating paper currency.
约翰尼·帕姆斯丘奇(Johan Palmstruch)是个有瑕疵的天才，既恼人又迷人。他用了五年时间实现了他的梦想：纸币自由流通。
Suppose you are moving after five years, you took out a thirty-year mortgage and you're moving after five years.
假设你已经偿还了五年贷款,你的贷款总期限是30年,你已经还了五年
For the five worst crises, growth rates tumbled by five percentage points from their peak and recovery took more than three years.
在5次最严重的危机中，增长率和峰值比跌了5个百分点且花了3年才恢复过来。
The transition from a rate of five to that of two, which took 130 years to happen in Britain—from 1800 to 1930—took just 20 years—from 1965 to 1985—in South Korea.
这种过渡过程从5降到2，在英国从1800到1930，走了130年的时间，而韩国只用了从1965年至1985年的20年时间。
On the other hand, if you left them with all their assets but took away the brand, in five years they'd be gone altogether.
相反，假如将品牌拿走，把其他资产都留给管理人员，五年后，他们肯定早已各分道扬镳、各奔前程了。
AFTER five years of delays American refiners are finally pumping new ultra-low-sulphur diesel fuel to service stations, to meet new regulations that took effect this month.
虽然晚了五年，美国的炼油公司们最终还是开始向加油站输送新型的超低硫柴油，以应对下个月开始生效的新规定。
Wexner opened another five stores in the following years and took the business public in 1969.
短短几年内，瓦克斯纳又开了五家分店，1969年，公司上市。
While it took Twitter four years to reach tweet number 10 billion earlier this year in March, it took less than five months to double the figure thanks to its increasing popularity worldwide.
在今年三月份，Twitter实现了第100亿“推”，而这让Twitter等了四年；之后由于全球范围内的不断流行，这一数字在不到五个月的时间内便翻了翻。
Five years ago he reconnected with Ms. Salzman, took a lesson and decided to return to the piano professionally.
5年前，他再次与萨尔茨曼夫人联系，接受指导并决定重返钢琴职业演出。
Five years ago he reconnected with Ms. Salzman, took a lesson and decided to return to the piano professionally.
5年前，他再次与萨尔茨曼夫人联系，接受指导并决定重返钢琴职业演出。
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