Example sentences of "but it [modal v] take [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva . |