Example sentences of "but it [modal v] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator .
2 Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years .
3 He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic .
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 I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect .
6 But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 But it will take international action to rescue the tin price and diversify investment .
10 The company says it has no intention of replacing the suspect part before operation but it will take remedial action if cracks subsequently develop .
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