1.   All in all, it was a lousy year for music fans.

2.   At Leyland, Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses.

3.   August is a quiet time of year for the retail trade.

4.   He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.

5.   It often takes years for immigrants to be accepted into the host community.

6.   It takes many years for kids who have suffered so much to learn to love and not to hate.

7.   It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds.

8.   It took many years for these ideas to gain credibility in the science community.

9.   It was a very optimistic year for me.