Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [num] years " in BNC.

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1 and this particular project , a lot of hard work has gone into it by members of the parish council and er I think it 's perfectly appropriate , and the ground was bought , it was n't donated , er it 's come of the er erm the funds that parish council receives from er residents and I think that it 's perfectly appropriate that it should mark one hundred years of parish local government .
2 From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed .
3 When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’
4 However , he thought it would take another ten years of satellite measurements before the predicted temperature increases and climate changes could be confirmed .
5 It will take another 20 years to complete the original link between the Severn and the Thames .
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