Example sentences of "but it [modal v] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator . |
| 2 | That would be more expensive per aircraft , certainly , but it would recognise two realities . |
| 3 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 4 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 5 | The Government has recently accepted a recommendation by the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine for a doubling in the number of trained consultants , currently 216 , but it will take 10 years before they are all in place . |