Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] take many [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
2 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
3 | In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness . |
4 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
5 | But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva . |
6 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
7 | The Swindon Works only closed in 1986 and since it can take many years for asbestos to affect people 's health , she expects to be dealing with similar cases well into the next century . |